Reawaken Your Dormant Enlightened Consciousness

There is no reason to cheat yourself any longer out of the unlimited bliss and knowledge that is your constitutional birth right. All you have to do is reawaken the dormant enlightened consciousness that has been sleeping within you for countless eons. This process of divine awakening is not an artificial imposition on the mind. Rather it is the cleansing away of the artificialities that have been imposed and accumulating within the mind for millions and billions of lifetimes.

Even though the process of becoming more and more illusioned is extremely complicated, the process of becoming liberated is extremely simple. All one has to do is regularly, solidly connect himself with the source of all existence. Through this connecting therapy gradually one is restored to one's original completely pure nature. This connecting process is known as the yoga system.

Some types of yoga are more suitable for previous ages when the earth was very peaceful and the human lifespan was thousands of years. In this present disturbed age of Kali, when the lifespan is very short, the most suitable yoga system is the bhakti yoga system. Through the system anyone in any situation can reawaken their dormant enlightened consciousness simply by chanting the holy names of God. For this purpose there is no form of chanting which is more potent than the Mahamantra, the Great Chanting for Deliverance:

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

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Sankarshan Das Arrival at ISKCON Helsinki

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Why Chant Hare Krishna First?...

Why is the Mahamantra chanted in this order?

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

In other words, why is the name "Krishna" chanted first before the name "Rama", when Lord Rama appeared in this world before Lord Krishna appeared?

Thanks for sending me "Thought for the Day."

Santosh

Answer: Because Krishna is First...

It is not a correct understanding that Lord Rama appeared before Lord Krishna. According to the Mahabharata (Santi-parva 348.51-52) Krishna spoke the Bhagavad-gita to the sun god at the beginning of the Treta Yuga. The sun god, Visvavan, spoke it to Manu, the father of mankind, and Manu in turn spoke it to Maharaja Iksvaku, the forefather of the Raghu dynasty, in which Lord Ramachandra appeared. Therefore Lord Krishna appeared before Lord Rama did.

Krishna confirms in the Bhagavad-gita that He appears again and again whenever irreligion becomes predominant. It is not that He comes only once.

Over and beyond these points, it is clearly stated in the Bhagavad-gita, the Srimad Bhagavatam, and the Brahma Samhita, that Krishna is the source of all other incarnations. Since Rama, therefore, is an incarnation of Krishna, it is quite appropriate that we first chant Hare Krishna and then Hare Rama.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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