Hare Krishna mantra reveals everything

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Venugopal & Padmini

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Jun 4, 2014, 8:52:49 PM6/4/14

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In Srimad Bhagavatam, in the fourth canto 24th chapter, Lord Shiva sings beautiful prayers to the Lord and in verse number 40, Lord Shiva prays

artha-lingaaya nabhase / namo 'ntar-bahir-aatmane

namah punyaaya lokaaya / amushmai bhuri-varcase

"My dear Lord, by expanding Your transcendental vibrations, You reveal the actual meaning of everything. You are the all-pervading sky within and without, and You are the ultimate goal of pious activities executed both within this material world and beyond it. I therefore offer my respectful obeisances again and again unto You."

Here it is very interesting to understand the words artha lingaaya nabhase which means that the Lord reveals the actual meaning of everything, by expanding His transcendental vibrations. Srila Prabhupada writes in the purport, "Vedic evidence is called shabda-brahma. There are many things which are beyond the perception of our imperfect senses, yet the authoritative evidence of sound vibration is perfect. The Vedas are known as shabda-brahma because evidence taken from the Vedas constitutes the ultimate understanding. This is because shabda-brahma, or the Vedas, represents the Supreme Personality of Godhead. However, the real essence of shabda-brahma is the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra. By vibrating this transcendental sound, the meaning of everything, both material and spiritual, is revealed. This Hare Krishna is non-different from the Personality of Godhead. The meaning of everything is received through the air through sound vibration. The vibration may be material or spiritual, but without sound vibration no one can understand the meaning of anything."

We find that in the material world there are different gradations of intelligence and we find that there are some children in school who find it very difficult to understand things being taught. Then what do we do? In the normal schools, the children are looked down upon and they are punished, thus making them even more frustrated and depressed. On the other hand, we find in this prayer that Lord Shiva is glorifying the Lord that the Personality of Godhead is so kind to us that simply by chanting the Hare Krishna mantra we can understand everything in both the material and spiritual worlds since the transcendental sound vibration is the source of everything material and spiritual. Hence when children are not able to understand things, we should just ask them to chant the Hare Krishna maha mantra and we will find that when they stick to this chanting, Krishna will give them the intelligence to understand things. That is why our beloved Gurudev, H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj very loving speaks about the Prahlad International school children in Rajkot NeelMadhav dham as, "These children are really fallen sages from previous life. That is why they have picked up nicely. Else how is it possible! They also learn couple of verses from 12th chapter of Gita. This is all because of the internal potency. Our teachers don't trouble them too much. If they can't learn, they force them to chant. And then they learn the verses. And that is the internal potency. To create internal potency is very difficult. By material qualification, by MA, B.Ed or whatever, you can't acquire this quality. Unless you are devotee and that too, by following Prabhupada's words, then it is possible. Otherwise so many devotees are there. But they don't have any clue as to how to do devotional service."