Showing Up Is Taste | HG Vaisesika Dasa | ISV | 22 Nov 2025

Regarding the daily chanting, Prabhupāda wrote the following in a letter to one of his disciples, and I'll just read part of it: "My dear Jayapataka, please accept my blessings. I am very glad to receive your letter dated February 28 and noted the contents with great pleasure. The transcendental experience which you had during kīrtana performance at the Loyola University is very nice. Relishing the sweetness of Kṛṣṇa-kīrtana is only possible when one is actually advanced toward perfection. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī used to say, wishing, if he had possessed millions of ears and billions of tongues, then he could chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra a little bit relishably. In the conditioned stage, we chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra officially without any attachment, and try to finish the rounds as soon as possible. Sometimes we also forget to chant the prescribed number of rounds. But Haridāsa Ṭhākura at the last stage of his life, he was chanting 300,000 beads, although Lord Caitanya asked him not to labor so hard. But Haridāsa Ṭhākura said that he would continue the practice till the end of his life. So that is the position of transcendental taste. Please, therefore, chant very sincerely with your present aptitude of mind, and Kṛṣṇa will bless you more and more in understanding this secret of transcendental vibration. Of course, sometimes the public may misunderstand such tears of bliss, that we may better have to check it from the vision of ordinary persons." And in this paragraph, I had highlighted this: "In the conditioned stage, we chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra officially without any attachment, and try to finish the rounds as soon as possible." I hear often from devotees who say that, "How can I chant? I don't have taste." And first of all, one has to define what taste means. When Prabhupāda one day was giving a lecture in Los Angeles, in the middle, he stopped and said, "You all have taste, and here is why: because I come here every day and I say the exact same things, and you all come here every day and you listen," and he said, "you do not go away." He said, "That is ruci." S,o this act of coming every day to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, or taking your time to at least officially finish 16 rounds minimum every day, is a kind of taste. What's more, it will lead to every desirable aspect of life. Our connection with Kṛṣṇa will be re-established. So if we put our minds to the numerical strength and finishing every day, we'll be able to overcome all obstacles. ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #makejapagreatagain #chantharekrishnaandbehapy #mantrameditation #japa#spiritualawakening #soul #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #