Be All That You Can Be on the Vedic Path

Why be anything less than what we can actually be? Why limit ourselves or hold ourselves back from realizing our full potential? In this human life we have a special facility for realizing the highest truth and escaping the cycle of birth and death. Why should we accept anything else as our life's goal? That would not be very intelligent. We can easily attain this goal if we simply follow the Vedic pathway, which has been blazed by the previous acharyas, the great spiritual masters. There will be no limit to what we can experience or attain. This is the pathway that we are guiding you along in the ultimate self realization course.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Why Chant Hare?

In the Hare Krishna mahamantra what is the meaning of "Hare"? Is it not more productive if we just repeat the name of Godhead Himself: Krishna, Krishna, Krishna?

Brigadier N S S Krishna, VSM ( Retired )

Answer: For an Inside Connection with Krishna

In a similar way that we approach a big man through his secretary, Krishna is also approached through the medium of His spiritual energy, Hare. Actually Hare is the vocative form of the word Hara. Hara is our mother and Krishna is our father. This spiritual mother is none other than Srimati Radharani. When we chant Hare we are praying for Her blessings that we may get the mercy of Krishna.

If we try to bypass Srimati Radharani to directly get Krishna's mercy, we will not be successful. Therefore it is enjoined that we should first chant Hare and then Krishna. If we do so, Srimati Radharani will make sure that Lord Sri Krishna bestows His blessings upon us.

This is one of the insider's secrets on the path of bhakti. Those who approach Krishna directly do not receive the same caliber of blessings as those who approach Him through the mercy of Srimati Radharani.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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