Hare Krishna ( Mantra )
First Appearance of Hare Krishna Mantra:
The
Hare Krishna Mantra first appears in Kali
Santarana Upanishad. At the end of Dvapara
Yuga, Narada Muni went to Brahma (one of the Trimurti, the Creator)
and enquired about surpassing Kali (Kalyug):
"O Lord, how shall I, roaming
over the earth, be able to across Kali?"
To
pacify Narad Muni, and answer his question Brahma
replied:
“Hearken to that which all Shrutis
(the Vedas) keep secret and hidden, through which one may cross the Samsara
(mundane existence) of Kali. He shakes off (the evil effects of) Kali through
the mere uttering of the name of Lord Narayana, who is the primeval Purusha.”
Further
Narada Ji asked Brahma: "What
is the name?" To which Brahma
replied thus:
“Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare
Hare, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare; These sixteen names
are destructive of the evil effects of Kali. No better means than this is to be
seen in all the Vedas.”
Brahma
Ji further said:
“These sixteen words Hare Krishna
Mantra destroy the force which produces the sense of individuality of Jiva surrounded
by the sixteen Kalas (rays). Then like the sphere of the sun which shines fully
after the clouds (screening it) disperse, Parābrahman (alone) shines."
Narada Ji asked: O Lord, what are the rules to be observed with reference to it?
To which Brahma replied:
“There
were no rules for it. Whoever in a pure or an impure state, utters these
always, attains the same world of, or proximity with, or the same form of, or
absorption into Brahma.”