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          hare Kåñëa mahä-mantra—the great incantation for deliverance
          from material existence and which bestows love of Godhead: Hare
          Kåñëa, Hare Kåñëa, Kåñëa Kåñëa, Hare Hare/ Hare Räma, Hare
          Räma, Räma Räma, Hare Hare.
          hare Kåñëa movement—the movement for spreading the chanting
          of the Hare Kåñëa mahä-mantra. See also iskcon.
          harinäma—(1) the holy name(s) of the Supreme Lord; (2)
          harinäma-saìkértana.
          harinäma-saìkértana—See Saìkértana.

          hiraëyakaçipu—an ancient infamous despot.
          impersonalism—See Mäyäväda.
          iskcon—International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
          Founded in 1966 in New York by His Divine Grace A. C.
          Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupäda, it is the principal manifestation
          of what is popularly known as the Hare Kåñëa movement.
          Jéva—one of the innumerable living entities who are eternal
          individual souls, atomic particles of the Supreme Lord’s energy.
          Jïäna—(1)  knowledge;  (2)  abstruse  spiritual  knowledge,  based
          on Vedic texts, purported to lead to liberation; the quest for the
          absolute truth  through  philosophical  speculation  and  with  an
          impersonalist bent.

          Jïäné—a seeker of the absolute truth through philosophical
          speculation, usually with an impersonalist bent.

          Kali—the personification of vice.
          Kaniñöha-adhikäré—a neophyte devotee, on the lowest level of
          devotional service, having little knowledge or understanding.
          Karma—(1) action; (2) fruitive activity performed in accordance
          to  çästric  ritualistic  injunctions;  (3) the  principle  governing
          material action and reaction; (4) reactions to previously performed
          activities; destiny.
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