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Yoko Ono: If Hare Kṛṣṇa is such a strong, powerful mantra, is there any reason to chant anything else

I mean, for any of your disciples or us or anybody else who goes to any spiritual master – how are we to tell if he’s for real or not?

Chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa is sufficient for liberation; there is no doubt about it. But if someone wants to understand the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra through philosophy, through study, through Vedānta The Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is sufficient. Otherwise, the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is sufficient. Simply by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, you get the highest perfection. That’s a fact.

Similarly, in this Age of Kali [the present age of quarrel and hypocrisy] the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is prescribed

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, founder-ācārya of the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement, arrived as a houseguest at

Yoko Ono: Well, if Hare Kṛṣṇa is the best one, why should we bother to say anything else other than Hare Kṛṣṇa?

John Lennon: From Hare Kṛṣṇa.

John Lennon: But the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is the best one?

According to our Kṛṣṇa consciousness philosophy, the mantra is coming down through four channels of disciplic

In the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad-gītā Śrī Kṛṣṇa says the same thing to Arjuna.

John Lennon: If all mantras are just the name of God, then whether it’s a secret mantra or an open mantra

Śrīla Prabhupāda: Chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is the recommended process for cleaning our hearts. So actually one who chants Hare Kṛṣṇa regularly doesn’t have to do anything else.

A conversation about the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra between Śrīla Prabhupāda and John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George

For instance, you said that Hare Kṛṣṇa is the most super-powerful word. why do you encourage us, saying that we’re songwriters and all, to write any other song than Hare Kṛṣṇa

In the Bhagavad-gītā, Lord Kṛṣṇa says, “As all surrender to Me, I reward them accordingly. Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Absolute. If someone wants to enjoy a particular relationship with Him, Kṛṣṇa presents Himself in that way. But if someone wants a rose, Kṛṣṇa gives him a rose.

We say that the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is sufficient for one’s perfection, for liberation.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: There are other mantras, but the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is especially recommended for this But the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra is especially recommended for this age. And apart from the statements of the Vedic literature, Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself, in the form of Lord Caitanya , preached that everyone should chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra.

In this way, they criticized His constant chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa. He established the chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa by sound arguments based on the Vedic scriptures.

So our Kṛṣṇa consciousness philosophical method is to follow the great personalities, such as Lord Kṛṣṇa

One person may find that Hare Kṛṣṇa is more beneficial to his spiritual progress, and yet another person