Upanishadic · Kali-Santarana Upanishad

Hare Krishna Mahamantra

~20 second read · suited to sadhana, devotion

हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे । हरे राम हरे राम राम राम हरे हरे ॥

hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare . hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare ..

Meaning

Calling on the divine by name — Krishna, Rama, Hari — over and over. No sentence to parse here, only the names repeated until the mind grows quiet.

Practice it daily

In Niyam, this mantra can stand between you and your most distracting apps — it appears for 15 seconds, in your script with its meaning, each time you open them. Read, breathe, continue. Fourteen days of those pauses become a sadhana.

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