It's very difficult to fit into the material world because we don't belong here, and the hard struggle for existence means trying to find a niche here in the material world, but there is no niche for spiritual souls in this world. So, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa with feeling puts us immediately in our constitutional position. So, it feels natural, and there's great relief because we're acting in our constitutional position as servant, and especially if we remember the meaning of the prayer that we're asking, "Kṛṣṇa, please, let me be daring and active in your service. Please, let me serve you somehow or other."

And I was just reading in the Ninth Canto where Śrīla Prabhupāda says that those who are in business, those who are industrious, start some enterprise, and they get some progress in building a business, and they make some money, but they want more. They want to build more buildings. Facebook isn't big enough now, Apple's not big enough. It has to be bigger, bigger buildings, more people involved, more money coming in. So, Prabhupāda then says, "But a devotee is the same way with service, our priorities. We have the same ambition, but the priorities are different. We want more and more service."

And chanting with that kind of ambition is very effective, because if I'm just passively chanting or not paying attention, then I may or may not hear the mantra. But if I have this desire, "I want more," think like a CEO or a business owner, "I want more," and if you chant with that mood, "Hare Kṛṣṇa, please give me more service. It's not enough. More, more, more," then that constitutional position becomes even more apparent, and there's deep satisfaction, because Kṛṣṇa not only gives more service, but he also gives empowerment to do it, and in that, we develop more and more capacity. And it's using the human life to develop more capacity for service that actually makes us happy and exalted. The more service one gets by calling out to Kṛṣṇa and asking for help and then following up with what he gives, the more we come to a position of exaltation. That is, we're using the full purpose of human life, and we know it. And then everybody else knows it, too, because they can see that the person is properly situated. Nothing else needs to be done except for service to Kṛṣṇa.

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