# Results of Giving Up Chanting The attraction of chanting the holy name is so powerful that only an animal can give it up. One who cannot complete his assigned number of rounds is in a diseased condition of spiritual life. If we neglect the regulative principle of chanting the mahā-mantra, we will eventually fall down. --- ## Only an Animal Can Give It Up **The attraction of chanting the holy name is so powerful that only an animal can give it up:** ![[sb/4/20/26#purport|The impersonalist may ask why one should bother chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra continually for so many years instead of stopping and trying for kaivalya, liberation, or merging into the existence of the Lord. In answer, Mahārāja Pṛthu maintains that the attraction of this chanting is so great that one cannot give up the process unless he is an animal]] —SB [[sb/4/20/26|4.20.26]] Purport Presently these descendants of the Aryan family are taking this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement very seriously. Others who are associating with them and hearing the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra from the lips of pure devotees are also becoming captivated by the transcendental vibration.... **Pṛthu Mahārāja is very emphatic in this connection—only an animal can give up the practice of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa.** Those who are not animals but actually intelligent, advanced, human, civilized men cannot give up this practice of continually chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare / Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. —SB [[sb/4/20/26|4.20.26]] Purport --- ## A Diseased Condition **One who cannot complete his assigned number of rounds is in a diseased condition of spiritual life:** ![[cc/antya/11/23|Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu further inquired from Haridāsa, \"Can you ascertain what your disease is?\" Haridāsa Ṭhākura replied, \"My disease is that I cannot complete my rounds\"]] —Cc. [[cc/antya/11/23|Antya 11.23]] **If one cannot complete the fixed number of rounds he is assigned, he should be considered to be in a diseased condition of spiritual life.** —Cc. [[cc/antya/11/23|Antya 11.23]] Purport --- ## Eventual Falldown **If we neglect the regulative principle of chanting the mahā-mantra, we will eventually fall down:** ![[sb/5/8/8#purport|From this we can understand how we have to be very cautious in executing our spiritual duties by observing the rules and regulations and regularly chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. If we neglect doing this, we will eventually fall down]] —SB [[sb/5/8/8|5.8.8]] Purport We must rise early in the morning, bathe, attend maṅgala-ārati, worship the Deities, chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, study the Vedic literatures and follow all the rules prescribed by the ācāryas and the spiritual master. **If we deviate from this process, we may fall down, even though we may be very highly advanced.... Even if one is in the renounced order, he should never give up the regulative principles.** —SB [[sb/5/8/8|5.8.8]] Purport --- ## The Devotional Creeper Will Dry Up **Even if one is highly elevated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, if he stops chanting, his devotional creeper will dry up:** Kṛṣṇa is within you, and as soon as Kṛṣṇa sees that you are very sincere, that you are seeking, He sends a bona fide spiritual master. This combination of Kṛṣṇa and the spiritual master is the cause of one's receiving the seed of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The seed is there. If you have a very nice seed of a rose bush, what is your duty? If you have a seed of any nice plant, it is your duty not to lock it up in the safety vault of a bank. Your duty is to sow it in the ground. Where should you sow that seed? If you have information of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you just sow it in your heart. Not in this earth, but in the earth within yourself. **And after sowing a seed you have to pour a little water on it, so that water is hearing and chanting.** **This process should not be stopped** by the thought that because one is initiated there is no need of hearing and chanting. It should go on continuously. **If you stop pouring water on a plant, it will dry up; it will not produce any fruit. Similarly, even if you are highly elevated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you cannot stop this process of hearing and chanting because māyā is so strong, so powerful, that as soon as she sees, "Ah, here is an opportunity," at once you will dry up.** By the process of pouring water, that plant of Kṛṣṇa consciousness grows.... If you continue this chanting and hearing process, you will grow and grow and actually reach Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet and there relish His association. —*Kṛṣṇa Consciousness: The Topmost Yoga System* --- ## Falling into Material Conception **If a devotee fails to chant the holy name, he will fall into the material conception of life:** **We have witnessed that some of our contemporaries who are supposed to be great preachers have gradually fallen into the material conception of life because they have failed to chant the holy name of the Lord.** —*The Nectar of Instruction* Text 5 --- **[← Back to Śrī Nāmāmṛta](wiki/compile/sri-namamrita)**