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The Hare Krishna mantra is composed of three Sanskrit names: Hare, Krishna, and Rama.It is a poetic stanza in anuṣṭubh meter (a quatrain of four lines (pāda) of eight syllables with certain syllable lengths for some of the syllables).
These are various to the four yugas, and the Hare Krishna mahamantra is to kali yuga. [1] The Hare Krishna mantra is composed with the three names of the supreme power: Hare, Krishna, and Rama. [2] [3] [4]
In Vaishnava etymology the word Hare refers to Hara (literally, captivating, carrying away), personifying goddess Radha who is the Shakti of Krishna ("nada shakti") or and remembers her as the one who stole the mind of Krishna. The word Hare, or Radha, is repeated eight times in the Kali-Santaraṇa mantra and is a reminder of her love for the ...
In the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition, Hari is a name of both Krishna and Vishnu, invoked in the Hare Krishna mahamantra (Hare could be a vocative form of Hari). The Hari Stuti is a hymn in praise of Vishnu composed by Adi Shankara. The Hari Stotra is a Sanskrit hymn. Hari Om is a mantra and greeting.
He expounded Bhakti yoga and popularised the chanting of the Hare Krishna Maha-mantra. [5] He composed the Shikshashtakam (eight devotional prayers). Chaitanya is sometimes called Gauranga (IAST: Gaurāṅga) or Gaura due to his molten gold–like complexion. [6] His birthday is celebrated as Gaura-purnima.
International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly referred to as the Hare Krishna movement, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organization. It was founded by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada [ 2 ] on 13 July 1966 in New York City.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was the proponent for the Vaishnava school of Bhakti yoga (meaning loving devotion to God), based on Bhagavata Purana and Bhagavad Gita. [68] Of various incarnations of Vishnu, he is revered as Krishna, popularised the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra [69] and composed the Siksastakam (eight devotional prayers) in Sanskrit.
It is believed that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu himself designated Haridasa as nāmācarya, meaning the 'teacher of the Name'. [3] Haridasa Thakura was a devotee of the deity Krishna, and is regarded to have practised the chant of his veneration, the Hare Krishna mantra, 300,000 times daily. [4]