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| The Hare Krishna maha-mantra, in Devanagari. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
At age 19 I became a Hindu monk and chanted Hare Krishna on average 3,456 times daily for 33 years, or about 41,627,520 times.
The Vedas say that if anyone even unknowingly chants the Holy Name of God - such as Krishna or Rama - they are spiritually benefitted. If you take the name Chris Nelson and parse it like so - chrishne lson - you will notice that the chrisne part is the same as krishna.
I met both of these nonstandard Krishna emissaries while living in the material world. Later I would chant Hare Krishna to the point of ecstasy, and beyond...
