{"id":72969,"date":"2026-01-18T01:33:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=72969"},"modified":"2025-04-20T08:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T03:03:05","slug":"the-names-hare-and-krishna-mean-radha-and-krishna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-names-hare-and-krishna-mean-radha-and-krishna\/","title":{"rendered":"The Names Hare and Krishna Mean Radha and Krishna"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sri Gopala Guru Gosvami explains the meaning of the name with these words:<\/span><\/p>\n

vijnapya bhagavat-tattvam cid-ghanananda-vigraham<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

haraty avidyam tat karyam ato harir iti smrtah<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

haraty sri-krishna-manah krishnahlada-svarupini<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

ato harety anenaiva sri-radha parikirtita<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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anandaika-sukha-svami syamah kamala-locanah<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

gokulanandano nanda-nandanah krishna iryate<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

vaidagdhi sara-sarvasvam murti-liladhidaivatam<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

radhikam ramya-nityam rama ity abhidhiyate<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Personality of God, which has an eternal form of infinite knowledge and happiness, has manifested itself in His name. He takes away ignorance and the activities that concern it, so devotees remember Him as Hari. Sri Radha, who is the Lord’s internal power of happiness, captures Krishna’s mind. She is therefore glorified as Hara. The vocative form of Hara is Hare.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sri Krishna is the eternal beloved of Radha, who is happiness personified. The beautiful dark son of Nanda, who has eyes like lotus petals, is the only source of happiness for the residents of Gokula. He is therefore known as Krishna. The names Hare and Krishna therefore mean Radha and Krishna, and are filled with eternity, knowledge and happiness.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a section of the book \u201cBhajana-Rahasya\u201d.<\/span>
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Sri Gopala Guru Gosvami explains the meaning of the name with these words: vijnapya bhagavat-tattvam cid-ghanananda-vigraham haraty avidyam tat karyam ato harir iti smrtah haraty sri-krishna-manah krishnahlada-svarupini ato harety anenaiva sri-radha parikirtita \u00a0 anandaika-sukha-svami syamah kamala-locanah … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":72970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-72969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-bhajana-rahasya-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 05:45:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}