Expounding the Supreme Science in Melbourne

My visit to Melbourne has been jam packed with numerous golden opportunities to expound the supreme science to audiences who are very eager to drink deeply from the nectarean reservoir of transcendental wisdom. There is no truly nothing more enlivening to hear and explain this topmost knowledge. This point is confirmed as follows in the Srimad Bhagavad-gita:

mac-citta mad-gata-prana
bodhayantah parasparam
kathayantas ca mam nityam
tusyanti ca ramanti ca

"The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me, their lives are fully devoted to My service, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss from always enlightening one another and conversing about Me."
--Bhagavad-gita 10.8

So if you are looking to experience the supreme happiness at every minute, my best advice is that you find the ways and means to always be engaged 24 hours a day or as much as possible in hearing, chanting, and remembering the transcendental names, fame, forms, pastimes, entourage, and paraphernalia of that Supreme Person Who emanates from Himself everything that exists. I am speaking of Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari expounding the supreme science in Melbourne, Australia

Sankarshan Das expounding the supreme science in Melbourne

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: 1,728 Mahamantras?...

I was wondering. Is one round of chanting on the japa beads done 108 times so that 16 rounds would actually mean chanting the Hare Krishna mantra 1,728 times? Thank you for your help.

Matthew

Answer: Deeply Dive Daily...

On each bead we chant the entire Mahamantra:

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

Therefore each time we chant around the 108 beads we chant the Hare Krishna Mahamantra 108 times. Every initiated devotee chants around the beads at least 16 times daily. Your math is correct. 16 x 108 = 1,728. So every day the initiated devotees chant the Hare Krishna Mahamantra at least 1,728 times. In this way they deeply dive daily in that sweet nectarean ocean of nama-rasa, the taste of the name.

So now you must make your life perfect by giving up bad habits and chanting at least 16 rounds every day according to the expert guidance of guru, sadhus (saintly advanced devotees), and sastra (scripture). Your life will be inconceivably sublime.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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