Prabhupada’s Magic: He Got the Whole World Chanting Hare Krishna! (MP3 Audio 1977 Conversation)

Throughout the whole world we are chanting Hare Krishna. Is not that magic? Foreign countries, foreign religion, and they are accepting Krishna and chanting Hare Krishna. Is not that magic?   ...Read More

Mantra Wars

I will concentrate on the nature of mantras and how they were used in ancient times or in ‘Vedic’ civilizations that go back more than 5,000 years and were employed not only for spiritual emancipation but in military applications as well. In other words, mantras were used to defeat the enemy in times of war.   ...Read More

Does Initiation Make The Maha-Mantra Work?

Ive read in Prabhupada’s books that this transcedental sound is passed down through a lineage of masters, and the pure sound is preserved by great yogis as himself. Also these great yogis share this sound with their desciples in first initiation. Is this the way you can begin to practice this kind of yoga? Can I receive this sound by anybody or do I need to receive it by someone like Prabhupada?   ...Read More

If you can be liberated by chanting once, why continue chanting?

When a child is born, the doctors are anxious to see “Is the child breathing, does he have a heart beat ?” if yes, they are relieved, the child is alive, still, the child must go on breathing, and heart beating, otherwise it will be a dead child.   ...Read More