The Preposterous Fallacy of Modern Science

Modern science is based on the premise that unless something is empirically verifiable its objective reality cannot be confirmed. The difficulty with this premise is that it is not empirically verifiable. This means that according to this premise what we now call science is not science at all. It's dogma. If you base an entire system of knowledge on dogma, that system then washes, like a sand castle, into the sea of unreliability and irrelevancy when it comes to existential matters. This is why modern science is incapable of sufficiently explaining what each of us is personally experiencing at every moment, namely our own consciousness.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Castles Made of Sand Are Washed Into the Sea

Castles Made of Sand Are Washed Into the Sea

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Was the Mahamantra Turned Around?

Respected Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada and to you.

Is it true that the mahamantra was turned around, that originally it was: Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare/ Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare?

And does Rama in the mahamantra refer to Ramacandra or Balarama?

An aspiring devotee from Amsterdam,
Tony

Answer: We Have It In Its Original Form

The form of the mahamantra has always been:

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

But even if you start off with Hare Rama first, it still ends up being just the same once you get rolling.

Rama in the mahamantra can refer to Lord Krishna, to Lord Balarama, Lord Ramacandra, or Lord Parasurama.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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