Our humble service attitude in our life is what determines what effect chanting will have on our consciousness. Otherwise we can be chanting for millions and millions of births before we actually achieve the goal.
Consciousness is the background of all reality.
In peaceful, sattvik atmosphere – the consciousness can be uplifted.
Lecture on "Living without Electricity" – Salem – 26th Nov'07
Advancement means advancement of consciousness.
Lecture on "Living without Electricity" – Salem – 26th Nov'07
It may be that someone is not very educated but his consciousness is very high, whereas someone else is superficially very educated but his consciousness is very low.
Lecture on "Living without Electricity" – Salem – 26th Nov'07
So this modern way of life — now we have electricity and TVs and people spend hours, instead of chanting Hare Krishna they are watching TV, spoiling their life, and having all these bad vibrations pumped into their brain. Day after day they are watching murder, rape and so many horrible things on TV. And how it pollutes the consciousness! If we chant Hare Krishna, it purifies the consciousness. Prabhupada wanted these [farm] communities, where people could live simply and chant Hare Krishna — in an ideal way.
Lecture on “Simple Life on Farm Communities” (Pula Farm, Croatia, 20 October 2000)