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The Hare Krishna mantra, also referred to reverentially as the Mahā-mantra (lit. ' Great Mantra ' ), is a 16-word Vaishnava mantra mentioned in the Kali-Saṇṭāraṇa Upaniṣad . [ 1 ] In the 15th century, it rose to importance in the Bhakti movement following the teachings of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu .
Poster depicting Prabhupada for the 1967 Mantra-Rock Dance, a fundraising event in aid of ISKCON's San Francisco temple. In 1968, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder and acharya (leader) of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), sent six of his devotees to London to establish a new centre there, the Radha Krishna Temple, and so expand on the success of ISKCON's ...
Hare Krishna may refer to: International Society for Krishna Consciousness , a group commonly known as "Hare Krishnas" or the "Hare Krishna movement" Hare Krishna (mantra) , a sixteen-word Vaishnava mantra also known as the "Maha Mantra" (Great Mantra)
Clockwise from upper left: Om (an ancient Vedic mantra used in Hinduism and Buddhism), the Ṇamōkāra mantra (the most important mantra in Jainism), the Vajrayana Buddhist E-VAM mantra, known as the Kalachakra "Tenfold Powerful One", Om mani padme hum (a popular Buddhist mantra) in Tianjin Temple (Ranjana script) and (at the bottom) the Hare Krishna mantra in a modern concert setting.
Titled "Hare Krishna Mantra", the song reached the top twenty on the UK music charts, and was also successful in West Germany and Czechoslovakia. [23] [25] The mantra of the Upanishad thus helped bring Bhaktivedanta and ISKCON ideas into the West. [23] Kenneth Womack states that "Hare Krishna Mantra" became "a surprise number 12 hit" in Britain ...
Maha-mantra Hare Krishna in Devanagari script. A mantra is a sacred utterance. The most basic and known it among the Krishnaites—Mahā-mantra ("Great Mantra")—is a 16-word mantra in Sanskrit which is mentioned in the Kali-Saṇṭāraṇa Upaniṣad: [116] [117]
Since the Mantra-Rock Dance brought the Hare Krishna movement to the wider attention of the American public, [10] Prabhupada's increased popularity attracted the interest of the mainstream media. Most notably, he was interviewed on ABC 's The Les Crane Show and lectured on the philosophy of Krishna consciousness on a KPFK radio station program ...
The Hare Krishna mantra is composed with the three names of the supreme power: Hare, Krishna, and Rama. [2] [3] [4] Mantras. According to Gauda Govinda Maharaja's ...