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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 .
In the Gaudiya tradition, it is the maha-mantra, or great mantra, about Krishna bhakti. [213] [214] Its chanting was known as hari-nama sankirtana. [215] The maha-mantra gained the attention of George Harrison and John Lennon of the Beatles fame, [216] and Harrison produced a 1969 recording of the mantra by devotees from the London Radha ...
Radha-Krishna (IAST rādhā-kṛṣṇa, Sanskrit: राधा कृष्ण) is the combined form of the Hindu god Krishna with his chief consort and shakti Radha.They are regarded as the feminine as well as the masculine realities of God, [7] in several Krishnaite traditions of Vaishnavism.
Bhagavatism, one of the traditions that was assimilated with what would become Vaishnavism, revered the Vrishni heroes, primary among them being Vāsudeva (Krishna). [5] It may be concluded that the mantra was first associated with the reverence of Vāsudeva as the supreme deity [6] before he was syncretised with Vishnu, after which it became an invocation of both deities.
The primary spiritual practice Prabhupada taught was Krishna sankirtana (also called kirtan or kirtana), in which people musically chant together names of Krishna, especially in the form of the maha-mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
Responding to her husband's entreaty, Kunti employed her mantra, resulting in the birth of Yudhishthira, Bhima, and Arjuna. Later, she shared this mantra with Madri, who bore Nakula and Sahadeva . Following Pandu's demise and Madri's self-immolation, Kunti assumed responsibility for her stepsons and relocated with her children to Hastinapura ...
Vasudeva Takes the Infant Krishna Across the Yamuna River. Master at the Court of Mankot, c. 1700. Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh. Vasudeva (/ ˌ v ʌ s u ˈ d eɪ v ə /; Sanskrit: वसुदेव [ʋɐsudéːʋɐ]), also called Anakadundubhi (anakas and dundubhis both refer to drums, after the musicians who played these instruments at the time of his birth), [1] [2] is the ...
A second important element is the cult of Krishna Govinda. Still later is the worship of Bala-Krishna, the Divine Child Krishna - a quite prominent feature of modern Krishnaism. The last element seems to have been Krishna Gopijanavallabha, Krishna the lover of the Gopis, among whom Radha occupies a special position. In some books Krishna is ...