The Hare Krishna mantra is direct prayer to the Lord's original energy, not its material reflection.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation — October 20, 1968, Seattle 681020R1-SEATTLE [13:12 Minutes] Prabhupāda: ...the whole atmosphere, you should come and disturb. You are making... You cannot understand? And the whole attention is diverted to you.
So harā, harā is the form of the word... Hare is the form of the word harā when address..., when she is addressed. And Kṛṣṇa, when He's addressed, the form does not change. This is grammatical rule.
So Hare Kṛṣṇa means, "Oh, the energy of Kṛṣṇa, or energy of the Lord," and Kṛṣṇa, "the Lord." So Hare Kṛṣṇa. Hare Kṛṣṇa means I am praying not only to the Lord, but to the energy also. This is natural. Just like a man and woman. In whole world there is combination of male and female, either...
Any society—human society, or bird society or dog society or animal society—why this male and female? Why? Female is the energy, energy of the male. Why a man takes, marries a woman and takes responsibility...? Of course, in your country they marry as a matter of joke; immediately divorce after week or after seven days.
But marriage means to take full responsibility of a woman. That is real marriage, Vedic marriage. We, when I get married our boys and girls, the boy takes this vow that "I take responsibility of your maintenance throughout your whole life," and the girl promises that "I desire to serve you throughout my whole life." So the woman, the female, is the energy. When a man comes at home, he sees that everything is nicely decorated, my wife is well dressed and foodstuff is nicely prepared, he becomes encouraged.
He can work more nicely. Therefore woman is the energy. The woman gives the energy and he can work. Wherefrom this idea came?
The idea came because it is originally here, janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1]. Everything is coming from the Supreme; otherwise where do you get this idea—sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma—without being in the origin? Bījo 'haṁ sarva-bhūtānām [Bg 7.10], Kṛṣṇa says that "I am the root of everything." [O son of Pṛthā, know that I am the original seed of all existences, the intelligence of the intelligent, and the prowess of all powerful men.] So if this energy, male and female combination, is a necessity, so wherefrom this necessity came into existence unless it is there in the origin? Therefore it is to be understood that the Absolute has energy. He has got different energies. By His energies He is acting, and that is confirmed in the Vedic sūtra, parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate [Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8, Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport]. [The Supreme Lord has nothing to do. Nothing is equal to Him or greater than Him. He acts in different phases by manifesting His parts and parcels, which are all simultaneously differently situated by His unlimited, variegated potencies. Each potency acts quite naturally in sequences, providing Him full knowledge, power and pastimes.] The Supreme Absolute Truth has multi-energies.