Therefore the Hare Krsna Maha-mantra can help everyone by going to every City, Town and Village of the entire globe.
Maha means “great” and mantra means “sacred chant for deliverance.”
Of all mantras in the Vedas, one is called the Maha-mantra, or great mantra and is-
Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna
Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama
Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
The words “Hare” (pronounced ha-ray), “Krsna” (pronounced krish-na), and “Rama” (rhymes with “drama”), are Sanskrit words.
“Hare” is an address to God’s energy, known as Radha, and “Krsna” is name of God meaning “He who is attractive to everyone.” “Rama” means “one who gives pleasure and enjoys life.”
harinama harinama harinama eva kevalam
kalau nastyeva nastyeva nastyeva gatir anyatha
‘'In this Age of Kali there is no other means, no other means, no other means for self-realization than chanting the holy name, chanting the holy name, chanting the holy name of Lord Hari.’'
Spiritual life is like learning to walk no matter how many times you fall down, you must always get up again and again and keep trying until you succeed.
Actually for many of us this may take many births but best to finish all this material selfish activity up in this life under the very rare guidance of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
When we chant the Maha-mantra, it is a petition to God-
“O Krsna, O energy of Krsna, please engage me in Your devotional service.”
Years ago in the 1960s and early 1970s, we chanted 7 hours a day 5 days a week.
These days in the 2020s the same street chanting can continuously happen with devotees doing it in shifts, that can keep going all day.
If taken seriously and acted in every City, Town and Village on the Planet, then this chanting of Hare Krsna will save the world.
In the early days of the Australian ISKCON's Sankirtan Movement 50 years ago in 1972, we chanted 7 hours a day lead by Madhudvisa Swami and Upananda dasa now Avadhoot Maharaj.
It worked perfectly for 4 years, than we went from chanting 7 hours a day to mass book distribution 10 to 12 hours day and chanting ad well but not as long as before.
Today's goal is to chant Hare Krsna all day for 7 hours on the streets with different shifts of devotees, some can put in an hour, some two hours, some even 7 hours, and distribute Prabhupada's Books simultaneously.
So in this way one can gradually increase their Sankirtan service over time.
The point is the Yuga Dharma of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu in Kali-yuga is to see street Sankirtan in every Town, Village and City on the globe.
As a reminder to all, Spiritual life is like learning to walk, therefore no matter how many times you stumble on the Spiritual path or fall over, you must always get up and keep trying again and again if necessary.
If one is critical of another aspiring devotee who is trying their hardest to overcome past mistaken actions and fast downs, and are always spreading rumours and gossip of how fallen he or she is, then such hate is NOT good.
This is because it can lead to the fault finders taking birth in their next life in the exact same fallen situation of those they angrily criticising!
Karma unfolds like this in ways we least expect.
The conclusion is we should never ever give up trying to be Krsna Conscious no matter what we have done in this life or a past life, no matter how sinful we may have been.
All of us live in glasshouses in this material world, we are all here because of our past sins, no one is innocent in the material world.
As Srila Prabhupada says-
"Even gold covered with stool is still gold once you remove the covering of stool".
Similarly, when the jiva-soul is freed by its material covering, then one can experience the full potential of their Spiritual uncontaminated position.
Therefore good advice from the most sinful and fallen is still good advice.
The special mercy of deliverance by Sankirtan in this rare Kali-yuga, has to include all living beings, the pious and sinful, otherwise there is no meaning to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Prabhupada's claim they have come to save the most fallen.
The fact is Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu only comes "once" out of every 1000 Kali-yugas, or once every 8 billion 640 million years!
That is once in a day of Brahma to to one Kali-yuga to deliver and SAVE "the most fallen.**
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