Some: Glories of the holy name of Krsna , CHANT HARE KRISHNA AND BE HAPPY

[Paramananda das]

harer nama harer nama 
harer namaiva kevalam 
kalau nasty eva nasty eva 
nasty eva gatir anyatha

"In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the only means of deliverance is the chanting of the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way." (Brhan-naradiya Purana 38.126).

 : 
(Agni-Purana) 
hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare 
ratanti halaya vapi te krtartha na samsayah

  
"Hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare: Whoever chants this mantra, even 
neglectfully, will attain the supreme goal of life. Of this there is no doubt."

 

(Kali-santarara Upanisad) 
hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare 
hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare 
iti sodasakam namnam kali-kalmasa-nasanam 
natah parataropayah sarva-vedesu drsyate

  
"The sixteen names of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra: hare krsna hare krsna krsna 
krsna hare hare, hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare destroy all the 

inauspiciousness of the age of Kali. This is the conclusion of all the Vedas."

 In the Vishnu-dharma it is said,

" This word Krishna is so auspicious that anyone who chants this holy name immediately gets rid of the resultant actions of sinful activities from many, many births."

atah sri-krsna-namadi na bhaved grahyam indriyaih 
sevonmukhe hi jihvadau svayam eva sphuraty adah

"No one can understand the transcendental nature of the name, form, quality and pastimes of Sri Krsna through his materially contaminated senses. Only when one becomes spiritually saturated by transcendental service to the Lord are the transcendental name, form, quality and pastimes of the Lord revealed to him." (Padma Purana) 

Sri Sri Krsna-nama-astakam
By Sri Rupa Gosvami


Verse one

nikhila-sruti-mauliratnamala
dyuti-nirajita-padapankajanta
ayi! mukta-kulair-upasyamanah
paritastvah harinama sahsrayami

"Oh my dear Harinama (Holy Name of Krsna)! You are identical with Lord
Sri Krsna's transcendental form according to all of the upanisads. The
upanisads personified glorify the effulgence emanating from Your lotus
feet. In other words, all of the personified Vedas taking shelter at
Your lotus feet sing Your transcendental glories with chosen verses
and yogis, rsis, and all kinds of liberated souls appropriately
worship Your lotus feet. Therefore, I completely surrender myself unto
Your lotus feet."

Verse two

jaya namadheya! munivrndageya!
jana-ranjanaya paramaksarakrte
tvamanadaradapi managudiritah
nikhilogratapa-patlih vilumpasi

"Oh my dear Krsna-nama (Holy Name of Krsna)! You are eternally
glorified by the realized souls! Just to attract the consciousness of
conditioned souls throughout the material universes out of Your
causeless mercy You manifest in an audible form of transcendental
sound vibration. Your mercy is so great that when someone chants You
accidentally or in neglect even for one time you destroy inconceivable
quantities of their accumulated sinful reactions from many births
together. My dear Holy Name of Krsna, all glories unto You!"

Verse three

yadabhaso 'pyudyan kavalita-bhavadhvanta-vibhavo
drsah tattvandhanamapi disati bhakta-pranayinim
janastasyodattah jagati bhagavan-nama-tarane
krti te nirvaktuh ka iha mahimanah prabhavati

"Oh my dear Holy Name of Krsna, You are more brilliant than the sun!
You are so merciful that if someone utters you out of fear or merely
as a "nama-abhasa" (imperfect stage prior to offenseless chanting)
even then Your mercy is so great that You destroy their material
ignorance and binding attachments to conditioned life and gradually
bless such conditioned souls devoid of spiritual knowledge with
transcendental knowledge of devotional service to Lord Sri Krsna! Oh
my dear Holy Name! Who in this universe can sufficiently glorify Your
transcendental qualities even amongst the great realized souls? All
glories unto You!"

Verse four

yad brahma saksat-krtinistayapi
vinasamayati vina na bhogaih
apaiti nama! sphuranena tatte
prarabdha karmeti virauti vedah

"By unbroken and concentrated meditation upon the impersonal Brahman
one is unable to destroy the primordial sinful and pious karmic
reactions which lie beyond the immediate renunciation of material
enjoyments but come from time immemorial. However, my dear Holy Name!
By Your vibrating on the tip of the tongue, in other words, by merely
pronouncing You these primordial karmic reactions are destroyed!"

Verse five

aghadamana-yasodanandanau nandasuno
kamalanayana-gopicandra-vrndavanedrah
pranata-karuna-krsna-vityaneka-svarupe
tvayi mama ratiruccairvardhatah namadheya

"My dear killer of the Aghasura! My dear beloved son of Mother Yasoda!
My dear son of Maharaja Nanda! My dear Lotus-eyed! My dear beloved of
the gopis! My dear Lord of Vrndavana! My dear worshipful merciful
Lord! My dear Lord Krsna! Oh my beloved Holy Name in these and Your
countless other forms! You manifest Your transcendental vibration in
this world to deliver the conditioned souls from the bondage of the
repetition of birth and death in material life out of Your causeless
and inconceivable mercy! My dear Holy Name! May spontaneous attraction
for chanting You increase unlimitedly by Your causeless mercy upon
me!"

Verse six

vacyah vacakamityudeti bhavato nama-svarupa-dvayah
purvasmat parameva hanta karunah tatrapi janimahe
yastasmin vihitaparadhanivah pranisamantad-bhave
dasyenedamupasya so 'pi hi sadanandambudhau majjati

"Dear Holy Name! You exist in two transcendental forms (svarupas),
namely: (1) One form is Your personal form of bliss as the Supreme
Living Person-the object of glorifications in transcendental sound;
and (2) another form is Your form as the Holy Name such as "Krsna",
"Govinda" and other transcendental names which indicate or describe
Your transcendental pastime forms of bliss. You are one and the same
ever-existent in these two transcendental forms. Of the two, I
consider that Your audible form as the Holy Name such as "Krsna,
Govinda, etc." is more merciful than Your visible personal form as the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is because if someone is engaged
in worshiping Your Deity forms and subsequently becomes implicated in
offenses and then takes shelter of Your transcendental form as the
Holy Name chanting "Krsna, Govinda, etc." while worshiping You, My
dear Holy Name, You, out of Your causeless mercy, purify that person
of all kinds of offenses and he is able to relish the nectar of the
unlimited ocean of transcendental bliss."

Verse seven

suditasrita janartirasaye
ramya-cidaghana-sukha svarupine
nama! gokula-mahotsavaya te
krsna purna-vapuse namo namah

"Oh my dear Holy Name! Oh beloved identical form of Krsna in sound!
The devotees who take shelter of Your lotus feet through constantly
chanting You are even saved from destruction due to offenses against
the Holy Name (nama-aparadha) out of Your causeless mercy. You are
manifest as the Supreme Personal Form of concentrated transcendental
ecstasy! You are personally the form of transcendental happiness and a
daily festival for the residents of Gokula (Vrndavana-dhama). You are
the full form of transcendental glory and eternal bliss through which
You manifest through nectarean loving exchanges with Your devotees.
Therefore, my dear Holy Name of Krsna, I offer again and again my
respectful obeisances unto Your lotus feet!"

Verse eight

narada-virnojjivana! sudhormi-niryasa-madhuripura
tvah krsna-nama kamah sphura me rasane rasena sada

"Oh my dear Holy Name of Krsna! You are the life and soul of the
"vina" [stringed instrument like a tamboura] of Devarsi Narada Muni!
You are an eternal tidal wave of full transcendental nectar! I humbly
fall at Your lotus feet and beg for Your causeless mercy to make me
always fixed in Your service so that You may always dance tirelessly
on my tongue, i.e. kindly bless me that I may always be engaged in
chanting You without cessation."