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The chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa seemed to spread in an almost magical way, and as time went on, the number Prabhupāda’s humility or serenity, nearly everyone who then came in touch with the chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa

Bohemian types would join Śrīla Prabhupāda every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening for chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa

intellectuals, most of whom had chosen to live outside of mainstream society, felt that by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa

record album, the LP that introduced two of the Beatles, John Lennon and George Harrison, to Hare Kṛṣṇa , that “the chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare / Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma

For thousands of years kṛṣṇa-bhakti, love of Kṛṣṇa, had been known only in India, but now, on the order of his spiritual master, Śrīla Prabhupāda had come to awaken the natural, dormant Kṛṣṇa consciousness

any in the crowd of about a hundred persons standing around the chanters found themselves swaying to or “The ecstasy of the chant or mantra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama , Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare has replaced LSD and other drugs for many of the Swami’s followers.

Harṣarāṇī: People who were plain lost or needed comforting ... sort of wandered or staggered into the Some of them stayed and became devotees, and some just took prasāda [spiritual food] and left. The police and the free clinics in the area couldn’t handle the overload of people taking LSD.

People were really sure there were going to be unusual feats, grandstanding, flashy levitations, or whatever saying, when you began to sense it – whether you were motivated to actually make a lifetime commitment and go this way of life, or whether you merely wanted to place it in a place and give certain due respect

I had been running around singing Hare Kṛṣṇa but had never understood exactly why or what it meant... I thought it was great now that he was here to expound on the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra – that would sort of

Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, had requested him to spread the teachings of Lord Kṛṣṇa , including the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, to the West, and now, after a lifetime in preparation, Śrīla Prabhupāda

By 1970, when George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” – with its beautiful recurring lyrics of Hare Kṛṣṇa and Because of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s deep love for Lord Kṛṣṇa and his own spiritual master, his amazing determination , and his sincere compassion, “Hare Kṛṣṇa” had become a household word.

By the summer of 1966, he had found a larger location more suited to propagating the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra and the ancient science of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Śrīla Prabhupāda led the solo chanting: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare / Hare Rāma, Hare

happy and satisfied, and therefore they have no taste for the transcendental message of Vāsudeva [Kṛṣṇa How will I make them understand this message of Kṛṣṇa consciousness? ... I have no devotion, nor do I have any knowledge, but I have strong faith in the holy name of Kṛṣṇa.

Ginsberg later recalled, “We sang Hare Kṛṣṇa all evening. It was absolutely great – an open thing.

honor onstage and was introduced by Allen Ginsberg, who explained his own realizations about the Hare Kṛṣṇa The well-known poet told the crowd that the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra in the early morning at the Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa temple was an important community service to those who were “coming down from LSD,”

event of the San Francisco hippie era, and Śrīla Prabhupāda, who was ready to go anywhere to spread Kṛṣṇa Prabhupāda at the Avalon Ballroom’s Mantra-Rock Dance, proceeds from which would go to the local Hare Kṛṣṇa

Throughout lunch, devotees played the New York recording of Śrīla Prabhupāda chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa

minds of the New York hippies and the San Francisco flower children with the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa

to over two hundred young people a free, sumptuous multi-course lunch of vegetarian food offered to Kṛṣṇa