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Hare Krishna (Maha Mantra) in the Devanagari (devanāgarī) script. Hare Krishna (Maha Mantra) in the Bengali language. 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]
According to Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition, this text's central mantra, known as the Hare Krishna, or Mahā ("Great"), Mantra, was given in the 16th century to Chaitanya Mahaprabhu at his initiation in Gaya (though the Sanskrit mantra is absent from his biographies). [3] This mantra, presented in two lines, contains the words Hare, Rama, and Krishna.
It is often referred to as the "Maha Mantra" (great mantra) by practitioners. Following the footsteps of Haridasa Thakur in 1966, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada established ISKCON (the International Society for Krishna Consciousness), a branch of the Brahma - Madhva - Gaudiya Vaishnava sampradaya , and introduced the Hare Krishna mantra to ...
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 ...
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.
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)
It is the meditative practice of repeatedly chanting the names of Krishna on a set of prayer beads. Its believers chant a mantra: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. This mantra is repeated 108 times on the bead. Devotees usually chant 16 rounds of this everyday. [16]
Most popularly, this worship takes the form of singing Radha and Krishna's holy names, such as "Hare", "Krishna" and "Rama", most commonly in the form of the Hare Krishna (mantra), also known as kirtan. It sees the many forms of Vishnu or Krishna as expansions or incarnations of the one Supreme God.