Ever-Expandingly Wonderful

After nearly a month of spreading the ultimate self realization science, Krishna consciousness, in the Balkans we are heading out for Germany. There have been so many highly memorable life-enhancing adventures that we have experienced here. It is amazing that no matter how sweet Krishna consciousness gets there is always room for it to become sweeter and even sweeter. This is the nature of transcendental existence. It is ever-expandingly wonderful. In material life everyone is looking for unlimited happiness, but no matter where they discover happiness they find that soon the well runs dry and there is no happiness left. Only Krishna consciousness can provide happiness that never dries up.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Sri Vishnu Sahasranam...

Am I correct in my assumption that it is permissible for me to chant the Sri Vishnu Sahasranam, the thousand names of Lord Vishnu?

Your student,

Laura Harrison

Answer: Incredible Leveraging Power of the Hare Krishna Mahamantra...

Although it is okay for you to chant Sri Vishnu Sahasranam, it is better that you chant the Hare Krishna Mantra.

Why?

Because according to revealed scriptures one utterance of Rama is equal to 1,000 repetitions of the names of Vishnu, and 1 utterance of Krishna is equal to 3 utterances of Rama. This means that if you say Krishna one time you get the benefit of chanting 3,000 names of Vishnu. Considering how long it takes to get all the way through the Vishnu Sahasranam one time, you can see that it is much more spiritually beneficial to simply focus on chanting Hare Krishna.

If you simply utter the Mahamantra one time:

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

You will get what benefit?

4 Ramas = 4,000 names of Vishnu
4 Krishnas = 12,000 names of Vishnu

Therefore one Mahamantra equals 16,000 names of Vishnu.

If you chant one round of japa, you will get the benefit of chanting 108 x 16,000 names of Vishnu. And if you chant 16 rounds of japa, you will the benefit of chanting 27,648,000 names of Vishnu.

Thus we can understand the great leveraging power of the Hare Krishna Mahamantra.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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