The Hare Krishna Healing Method

Today, millions of people practice this particular method of meditation that is said to bring peace, serenity and joy in one's heart and help address the perennial problems of stress, anxiety, and depression that is common to us all. But most importantly it has a proven record of helping millions deal with past emotional traumas, and resultant addictions. When it was first introduced to the west, this meditation by an Indian swami in his 70s, it attracted hippies from the American counterculture and the popular opinion in the west has been filtered through that lens. But the tradition of meditating on the sounds of the 32 syllables

Harey Krishn Harey Krishn
Krishn Krishn Harey Harey
Harey Raam Harey Raam
Raam Raam Harey Harey

is an ancient practice that precedes the western Hare Krishna movement by more than five thousand years.

However, this indigenous method of healing meditation that has benefitted many has yet not been systematically explained, despite increasing scientific scrutiny. By writing this book, and explaining this method of meditation for a community of seekers and researchers, my hope is to encourage more people to take advantage of this healing method by trying it out for themselves and see it's positive and practical effects in one's life.

This is a twenty first century commentary on a mystical text known as a Harinama Chintamani, written by Bhaktivinod Thakur (nineteenth century) that captures and conveys a dialogue that took place between the great revolutionary sixteenth century Avatar, Sri Krishna Chaitanya, Mahaprabhu, and his devout friend and confidant Hari Das thakur, a Muslim master of meditative chanting. It explains a form of meditation that goes back to the legendary Shree Krishna himself from five millennia back, and brings it alive as a healing method that has worked for millions of people through the arc off the history of its existence.