IVS devotees sing the mahamanatra at a community event in Kolkata, India.
The tradition of singing the mahamantra in IVS stems back to the year 2004 from a divine command. On April 17th, 2004, at 10:30am, Bhagavan was sitting in his daily morning samadhi, when a somber divine voice came out of the depths, saying: "Become mad and madden the world, say 'Hare Krishna'." This was the message ordained by the Infinite to Bhagavan to engulf the whole of humanity in a single thread of Oneness.
Swami Prajnananda-ji writes in the IVS book The Living God:
"At IVS, the Mahamantra is chanted not to propitiate Sri Krishna but to mingle with one and all, to feel others as our own Self. This indeed is the essence of Advaita, where the Self is seen in everything, and everything is seen in the Self. The Mahamantra is the platform where people from all walks of life, irrespective of their caste, creed, religion, gender and nationality, dissolve their individual self and have the taste of Supreme Oneness."
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"Vedanta cannot be comprehended by all. Shall they then be deprived of its essence? Hence the crux of Vedanta is served in a much simpler and easier way in the form of the Mahamantra."
The tradition of singing the mahamantra in IVS stems back to the year 2004 from a divine command. On April 17th, 2004, at 10:30am, Bhagavan was sitting in his daily morning samadhi, when a somber divine voice came out of the depths, saying: "Become mad and madden the world, say 'Hare Krishna'." This was the message ordained by the Infinite to Bhagavan to engulf the whole of humanity in a single thread of Oneness.
Swami Prajnananda-ji writes in the IVS book The Living God:
"At IVS, the Mahamantra is chanted not to propitiate Sri Krishna but to mingle with one and all, to feel others as our own Self. This indeed is the essence of Advaita, where the Self is seen in everything, and everything is seen in the Self. The Mahamantra is the platform where people from all walks of life, irrespective of their caste, creed, religion, gender and nationality, dissolve their individual self and have the taste of Supreme Oneness."
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"Vedanta cannot be comprehended by all. Shall they then be deprived of its essence? Hence the crux of Vedanta is served in a much simpler and easier way in the form of the Mahamantra."
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