Just like you cleanse physical objects with water, you cleanse psychic obejects with sound. The highest cleansing power is the sound of Krishna's name.
That which covers us and keeps us from realizing our real self, is our mind. The mind consists of thoughts, feelings, discrimination (intelligence), willpower, and false ego. Those are like a screen that covers the pure consciousness of the self. We are all eternal souls - minute particles of Krishna's conscoiusness. Krishna's consciousness consists of eternity, knowledge, and bliss, so we are minute particles of eternity, knowledge, and bliss, But these minute particles of pure consciousness - the soul - are at the moment covered by physical and psychic layers in the form of body and mind.
All souls, regardless of what kind of body they inhabit - whether plants, insects, fish, reptiles, birds, animals, or humans - are minute particles of eternity, knowledge, and bliss. That's whay all living entities always gravitate towards these three conditions - eternity, knowledge, and bliss. All living entities are pleasure seeking, they try to develop knowledge, and they possess the survival instinct.
The sound of Krishna's name will purify the filter of the mind, so that we will connect to our real selves. That means that by chanting Krishna's name we will experience higher forms of knowledge and bliss. That is the prediction.
It has nothing to do with some belief. If it is a scientific process as asserted by Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, it will work, whatever is our belief.
It doesn't matter whether you are an Atheist, Buddhis, Hindu, Christian, Mohammedan, or a Republican, or whatever, if you chant the Hare Krishna mantra on a regular basis, you will connect to your real self beyond your thoughts, feelings and false ego, and when you contact your real self, it will be experienced as knowledge and bliss.
The wonderful thing about this religion, is that you do not have to become a Hare Krishna and shave your head and go out on the streets dancing and singing. You can sit right in your own living room and test it.
And what do you have to lose?
Just try to chant the following mantra -
hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare
hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare
... say, 15 minutes a day for a week and see where it takes you.
That's BRAINWASHING, I hear someone yell :)
That's right. Our mind is poluted. It has accumulated so many traumas and misconceptions throughout countless of lives. It needs to be washed. And you wash it by the sound of God's name.
hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare
hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare
iti sodashakam namnam / kali-kalmasa-nashanam
natah parataropayah / sarva-vedesu drishyate
"The above mantra consisting of 16 words and 32 syllables, is the only means by which to protect against the evil influence of this age of Kali. By researching all the Vedas, one will find no more sublime process of religion than to recite the Hare Krishna mantra."
(Kali-santarana Upanishad)
