“Hare Krishna, Hare Rama” Essay

What does this phrase mean and where it came from? At first it may seem that these words have no significant meaning but they are a part of the supreme mantra in Hindu religion, or Krishnaism, characterized by the worship to Krishna. The full version is:

“Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare”

As you can notice, this mantra is made up only from three words that are repeated. “Krishna” and “Rama” are the names of one of the mythological Hindu Gods – Lord Vishnu. This religion states that Vishnu takes incarnation on earth in every era that would establish the law of righteousness and truth.

These two names have an incredible power and are very effective as millions of Hindus have been praying to God by chanting these two words for thousand of years. Due to the devotion, faith and pure spiritual feelings with which these two names have been pronounced by all religious people for so many years, they have charged by special energy. This spiritual vigour can take anyone into the state of meditation quite quickly by repeating these words.

The third word “Hare” has come from “Haran” that means “to take away, to end”. Thus this magic mantra has a very powerful meaning. When you say it you request the Supreme God Krishna to take away your pains, failures, sorrows, shortcomings and provide you joy and bliss.

It is said that when one person repeats this Hare Krishna Mantra with full devotion, faith and complete awareness of its meaning, he/she can gets filled with Krishna Consciousness. This feeling is equated to the greatest happiness in our life.

As to my personal attitude to this issue, I think that every man is endowed with spiritual power and energy from nature but not everyone knows how to use it. Some people can find their joy and bliss repeating this mantra, other people are devoted to the other religious and some others believe just in themselves and are full of power to find happiness and fortune without any words.