Great Souls Chant the Holy Name

 

(Lord Krishna to Arjuna): Always chanting My glories, endeavouoring with great determination, bowing down before Me, these great souls perpetually worship Me with devotion.

 

The mahatma cannot be manufactured by rubber stamping an ordinary man. His symptoms are described here: a mahatma is always engaged in chanting the glories of the Supreme Lord Krishna, the Personality of Godhead. He has no other business. He is always engaged in the glorification of the Lord. In other words, he is not an impersonalist. When the question of glorification is there, one has to glorify the Supreme Lord, praising His holy name, His eternal form, His transcendental qualities, and His uncommon pastimes. One has to glorify all these things; therefore, a mahatma is attached to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

- (Srila Prabhupada's Purport to Bhagavad-gita As It Is 9.14)