If you look outside, you dream; if you look INSIDE, you AWAKEN.
The author conducted a 3-group study on the effects of chanting the hare krsna maha mantra on stress, depression, and the three modes of nature–sattva, rajas, and tamas–described in the Vedas as the basis for human psychology. Sixty-two subjects, self-selected through newspaper advertisements in a Southeastern university town, completed the study. Average age was 24.63... Continue Reading →
Source: Back To Godhead magazine Jan 1, 2000 | Dhira Govinda Dasa, Holy Name, Volume-34 Number-01 ALTHOUGH I HAD done some preliminary theoretical work on researching the effects of chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, I wasn't sure I wanted to pursue the research for my doctoral dissertation. I thought it would be too difficult to gather... Continue Reading →
“Everyone is frustrated — husbands, wives, boys, girls. Everywhere there is frustration, because our loving propensity is not being utilized properly.” In this lecture given in Seattle, Washington, in October of 1968, Srila Prabhupada reveals how we can achieve complete satisfaction by directing our love toward the Supreme Person. om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya caksur unmilitam yena... Continue Reading →
The MUM Review, 6.Feb. 2002, by Brynne Sissom The physiological effects of reading Sanskrit are similar to those experienced during the Transcendental Meditation® technique, according to research recently completed by Dr. Fred Travis, director of the ERG/psycho-physiology lab of Maharishi University of Management in Fair field, Iowa, USA. Dr. Travis asked his test subjects to... Continue Reading →
What is mantra? Why chant & hear holy names of the Lord? Why our ancestors used to name their children with the names of God ? Why our ancestors had great peace of mind compared to the recent generations? What do the major religions say about chanting the holy names of Lord? How important it... Continue Reading →
The quintessence of Krishna Consciousness for this Kali yuga (the age of quarrel, disagreement, hypocrisy, darkness :twisted:) is Chanting the holy names of the Lord. A short talk on the importance of chanting the Hare Krishna mantra:
In all the scriptures, it is clearly established that the cause of our suffering is due to forgetfulness of our relationship with God. But currently we have either wrong understanding or no understanding about God or even Religion. Srila Prabhupada, my spiritual teacher used to say, if we have got wrong understanding about God or Religion then we should not abandon God or Religion; instead we should work towards getting the right understanding, just like if we have cataract in our eyes, we ask the doctor to remove the cataract and not the eyes!! This spiritual blog is an humble attempt in this regard.
We are not teaching some ritualistic process, that “You become Hindu. You become Christian. You become Muhammadan.” We are simply teaching, “You try to love God. You have forgotten God. You have declared, ‘God is dead.’ These are all nonsense. God is there. You are here. You are suffering because you have forgotten God. You try to love God. Your normal life will come back. You will be happy.” This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
– Srila Prabhupada
AWAKENING BEGINS HERE... 