So, Śrīla Prabhupāda is called A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Abhay Caraṇāravinda. He takes shelter of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa where there's no fear, Abhay. There's an acronym for fear: fear everything and run. You can turn it the other way: if you take shelter of Kṛṣṇa, face everything and rise. That's the modus operandi of somebody who feels fortified and protected by Kṛṣṇa like Prabhupāda. He faced everything and he rose.

If we're able to take shelter of Kṛṣṇa and say, "It's your power, it's not mine. I completely hand over myself to you. I don't want anything for myself; it's all for your service," then we become fearless. The best way to declare that again and again is: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare, Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. That's how to become fearless—to put it all in Kṛṣṇa’s hands and say that, "You take care of me, you maintain me, I'm just going to be your servant, that's it." Otherwise, there's anxiety and fear everywhere in the material world.

There's one other element that I think is very important in chanting with full intention. That is to feel part of Lord Caitanya's mission. When I'm thinking about why I'm not getting some taste—I'm chanting, but how come I'm not feeling ecstasy—then I'll start getting mental, like, "Oh, I can't chant." But if we're thinking about spreading the saṅkīrtana movement when we're chanting, that how everyone can have an opportunity to come in contact with this, there's a sense of a mission in the chanting: "Let me do good for others. Kṛṣṇa, please empower me to be able to help other people." It's a completely different feeling and flow than thinking, "Why aren't I getting some spiritual bliss here?" If we can lean into that mood and have some stake in the saṅkīrtana movement, and as we're chanting, have an underlying prayer that, "Please let this saṅkīrtana movement spread everywhere in the world, please use me as an instrument to spread the holy name to as many people as possible," then we'll be able to have a taste in chanting the holy name, even if..."

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