Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare…
February 24, 2010 by back-to-godhead-magazine
Filed under Chanting
Once you’ve hear it you’ll never forget it. You may not know what the words mean–nevertheless there’s something captivating about the Hare Krishna chant. Is it the catchy tune or the fascinating way in which the words are repeated and reversed? People who chant Hare Krishna say both contribute to its appeal. But they know that the secret of the chant’s attraction is the quality of the sound itself.
Anyone can take three words and make a song out of them, combining them in a cleaver way. But can that concoction be meditated on all day and all night? Would the chanters of those words report, as do the chanters of Hare Krishna, that the practice is freeing them from anxiety, opening up their minds to a liberated view of themselves, and investing them with blissfulness? No, of course not. The invented litany would only drive its creators to distraction.
But the sound of Hare Krishna is so enriching that a whole culture has been founded on it. Furthermore the people who chant Hare Krishna are developing good character, gaining knowledge of both the material and spiritual worlds, and helping other people to be free from pain. There is, then, a special quality to the sound of Hare Krishna. What is it?
The words Hare, Krishna and Rama have a special quality because they are seeds of spiritual consciousness. They are not a product of an earthbound language changing through the centuries. They are names of God, as ceaselessly energetic as God Himself.
When you pronounce these sounds, you are propelled into your eternal position as a particle of spiritual energy, a person living in a transcendental nature. Hare Krishna reveals to you the person you really are.
Read more about Krishna consciousness in the other articles on this website.
Hiiiiiiii , I am not regular in chantting, nd i want to regular . How can i do the same? thnks
You just have to become determined to chant Hare Krishna. And if when you become determined you will do it somehow or other, no matter what obstacles maya puts in our way.
The best time for chanting Hare Krishna is early in the morning, it is peaceful then and no one will disturb you. So it is just a matter of going to bed a little earlier in the evening and setting the alarm and getting out of bed in the morning and taking bath and chanting Hare Krishna.
I see that many, many materialists are getting out of bed early because they have to be at work early. They are doing this for money, so we want to get out of bed early to chant Hare Krishna to please Krishna. So like the man who has to get out of bed for work to please his boss, he does, that, because if he does not his boss will fire him from his job. So we have to think similarly and rise early in the morning to chant Hare Krishna to please Krishna. We need to convince ourselves that rising early in the morning and chanting Hare Krishna is essential for my advancement in spiritual life, and that is very important to me, and if I do not do it then I will not be able to chant regularly and will not please Krishna and will not be able to make much spiritual advancement. It is like that.
In the beginning we have to convince ourselves of the necessity of this rising early and chanting Hare Krishna but after we have been doing it for a while we will develop a natural taste for it and will automatically jump out of bed in the morning anxious to chant Hare Krishna. First stage is called regulative bhakti. In this stage the devotee rises early in the morning and chants Hare Krishna in accordance with the order of the spiritual master even if he has not got any real attachment or taste for doing it. And second stage is spontaneous bhakti. It means he has developed a taste for chanting Hare Krishna and he will do it automatically because he is getting great spiritual bliss from chanting Hare Krishna.
Hare Krishna PAMNHO, AGTSP.
The following is a selection of quotes from Prabhupadabooks.com we hope you catch it in the air.
“Birds of the same feather flock together.”(1)
That was “his indirect” hint. “You are not satisfied by, even after compiling Vedānta-sūtra. That means, that indicates that these literatures will not be satisfactory for the swan class of men, or paramahamsa (2)
And “when one is experienced in everything” and he is above all material affection that is called paramahamsa. Hamsa. Why…? Hamsa means swan. Why he’s compared with hamsa? The hamsa has got a qualification “to take the essence.” If you give a swan milk mixed with water, he’ll, he has got some tactics, he’ll simply take the milk case in and the water will be there, remain there. (3)
The Vedic literatures [śāstras] vividly describe how to understand the Supreme Lord, the source of all material and spiritual energy. Indeed, they elaborately explain these two energies. The swan [hamsa] is one who discriminates between matter and spirit, who “accepts the essence of everything.” (4)
Brahmā is also known as Hamsa (swan) because he can “grasp the essence of everything.” (5)
…They cannot understand, because they are not muni. The muni means very thoughtful. And how one can become perfect muni? That is also said here. Amalātmanām. Amala. Mala means dirty things, and amala, amala means just the opposite. No. Amala, “a” means “no.” His heart is cleansed of all dirty things. Such men. Amalātmanām. So these are the qualifications. Paramahamsa, one must be only spiritually interested like the swan. He is interested only to drink the milk, not the water. Similarly, one must become paramahamsa. One must be interested with spiritual advancement of life, not material. Reject. Reject it. (6)
…those who are fortunately advanced in “spiritual sense” take shelter of the paramahamsa and thus successfully complete the mission of human life. (7)
“You are meant to be understood by the paramahamsas.”(8)
The mind is rājahamsaḥ. It should be trained to be entangled with the lotus stem of Krishna’s lotus feet. (9)
“To accept all varieties of creation” and engage them in Krishna’s service, that is Krishna consciousness. (10)
hARIBOL.
(1)- Lectures : Song Purports : Purport to Bhajahu Re Mana — Los Angeles, May 27, 1972 : 720527PU.LA
(2)-: Lectures : Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.5.11 — New Vrindaban, June 10, 1969 : 690610SB.NV : [O my dear Krsna, ocean of mercy, You are the friend of the distressed and the source of creation. You are the master of the cow :
(3)-Lectures : Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.5.9-11 — New Vrindaban, June 6, 1969 : 690606SB.NV :
(4)-SB 6.5.18
(5)-SB.3.24.20
(6)-Lectures : Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.8.20 — Mayapura, September 30, 1974 : 740930SB.MAY :
(7)-KRSNA, The Supreme Personality of Godhead - 1970 Edition : Volume 2 : KB 2-30 / Spiritual Instruction for Vasudeva and Return of the Six Dead Sons of Devaki by Lord Krsna :
(8)-TQK 3:
(9)-Cc m 25-271
(10)-Lectures: Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures: Canto 1: Lectures: SB 1.16: Lectures: Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.16.5 — Los Angeles, January 2, 1974 : 740102SB.LA
Revered Madhudvisa ji, I read your Article for chanting ”Harekrishna…”I had have been doing so since long and have been experiencing what you have written in your Article.This very inspiring and practical.-Hare krishna—yours-Dr.S.P.Thakua devotee of lord Krishna–HAREKRISHNA