Srila Prabhupada’s overarching mission was to create a worldwide Brahmanical culture in order to inject Krishna Consciousness into mainstream society: into academia, the religious and scientific communities, into the arts, the workplace, and into the voting booth as well. The foundation of the Hare Krishna Movement takes two forms. One is the publishing, distribution, and study of his numerous books. The other is Sankirtana-Yajna, the chanting of the holy names of Krishna in the public arena. Prabhupada wanted devotees to make a “revolution of the Sankirtana Movement, everyone chanting and dancing.”
Yajna means sacrifice. People want to know, “What do I have to do to be successful, to be peaceful and prosperous?” Everyone is making a sacrifice in one way or another: for their children, to buy a home, to donate to a cause, to serve their country. Yajna especially means to make a sacrifice to open our hearts to serve God, the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna, the Lord within the hearts of all beings. Krishna is constantly with us as we wander through this world.
The age we are presently in, the Kali-yuga, is an especially difficult age. The material world is full of miseries and dangers of various sorts. What can we do to counteract the myriad problems of life? Above all, we desperately want to find a solution so we can live peacefully. This requires yajna, sacrifice. In different ages, different types of sacrifices were recommended.
In previous ages, there were other forms of sacrifices: going into the forests or mountains to meditate in seclusion and perform austerities, or by performing very elaborate and costly rituals. And if the mantras were not recited perfectly by the learned brahmanas, the ritual would be invalid.
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