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Hare Krishna as the Maha-mantra, Accepting Krishna Directly Brings Liberation

📅 September 29, 1976 📍 Vrindavan ⏱ 25 min
Accept Krishna directly through His names; this intelligent path bypasses the lengthy journey that demands many births of spiritual progress.
Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca

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Prabhupāda: Na taj janeṣu abhijñeṣu. Abhijñaḥ janeṣu, no attachment. Vyāsadeva, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, Nārada Muni, all the ācāryas, Rāmānujācārya, they have no respect for these. They're creating their howling habits, that's all.

How there can be peace? Doctor: Now, among the Kṛṣṇa mantras...

Prabhupāda: Why do you say Kṛṣṇa panthā? Doctor: No, mantras. I have come to mantra. Klīṁ kṛṣṇāya govindāya gopījanavallabhāya namaḥ.

Is that not a very powerful Kṛṣṇa mantra?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Doctor: That is better than Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: No. Hare Kṛṣṇa is therefore called mahā-mantra. Doctor: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare.

Prabhupāda: Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. Doctor: This you regard as the..., higher than any other...

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