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CHANTING THE HOLY NAME.
The nāmābhāsa stage is between that of nāma-aparādha, or chanting of the holy name with offenses, and pure chanting.Chanting the holy name of the Lord inoffensively will help one get immediate shelter at Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet.This means that by chanting Read more…CHANTING THE HOLY NAME.
Mechanical chanting is not as powerful as chanting of the holy name without offenses.The words "Hare Kṛṣṇa" should be very distinctly pronounced and heard.Sometimes one mechanically produces a hissing sound instead of chanting with the proper pronun
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Since He is absolute, He can appear Himself in the picture of His glorification, the two things being identical.Śrīla Nārada chants the glorification of the Lord not for his personal benefit but because the glorifications are identical with the Lord. Read more…CHANTING THE HOLY NAME.
To chant the holy name of the Lord just to counteract one's sinful activities, or to commit sinful activities on the strength of chanting the holy name, is offensive (nāmno balād yasya hi pāpa-buddhiḥ).By observing the four restrictions and avoiding Read more…CHANTING THE HOLY NAME.
One must come to the understanding that the holy name of the Lord and the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself are identical.One cannot reach this conclusion unless one is offenseless in chanting the holy name.By our material calculation we see a d Read more…THE HARE KRSNA MANTRA
Mantra: "man" means "mind" and "tra" means "to deliver".Thus a mantra is a transcendental sound vibration with potency to liberate the mind from material conditioning."Hare" is the vocative case (addressing form) of "Hari". This is another name for K Read more…
CHANTING HARE KRSNA By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Krsna consciousness is not an artificial imposition on the mind. This consciousness is the original energy of the living entity. When we hear the transcendental vibration, this consciousness is revived. And the process is recommended by authorities f Read more…
CHANTING IN CONGREGATION
kṛṣṇa-varṇaḿ tviṣākṛṣṇaḿ
sāńgopāńgāstra-pārṣadam
yajñaiḥ sańkīrtana-prāyair
yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ
kṛṣṇa-varṇam — repeating the syllables kṛṣ-ṇa; tviṣā — with a luster; akṛṣṇam — not black (golden); sa-ańga — along with associates; upāńga — servitors; a
The Panca-tattva mantra
Our obeisances to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are complete when we say śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda. As preachers of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we first offer our obeisances to Śrī Caitan