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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.