Re: Question: term "energy" (="hare"?)

Posted By Vijay Sadananda Pai (vijaypai@mridangam.rice.edu)
26 Jun 1997 14:41:35 GMT

In article <ghenECB7KA.40A@netcom.com>,
Vidyasankar Sundaresan <vidya@cco.caltech.edu> wrote:
>Jerzy Tarasiuk wrote:
>> Also, one of religious groups using the term is Hare Krishna
>> movement (they say "Hare Krishna" means "energy of Krishna"),

>No, "Hare" does not mean "energy". Hari is a name of the God Vishnu, and
>Hare is the vocative case, used when the devotee calls out to Vishnu.
>There is no specific connection of Hare with "energy".

This is a difference between Gaudiya Vaishnavas (Hare Krishnas) and
others -- "Hare" in the Hare Krishna mahaa-mantra is interpreted by
Hare Krishnas as the vocative of "haraa" (a name of Raadhaa) rather
than of "hari" (a name of VishhNu). Since Raadhaa (or Lakshmii) is
considered the internal potency of Lord Krishna, that's why "Hare"
there is considered to mean "O, energy of the Lord."

Yours,

Vijay

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