{"id":76070,"date":"2026-03-05T01:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=76070"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:42:30","slug":"kali-santarana-upanisad-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/kali-santarana-upanisad-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Kali-santarana Upanisad"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lord-Caitanya-converts-mayavadis-to-Krishna-consciousness_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-76071 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lord-Caitanya-converts-mayavadis-to-Krishna-consciousness_-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lord-Caitanya-converts-mayavadis-to-Krishna-consciousness_-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lord-Caitanya-converts-mayavadis-to-Krishna-consciousness_.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>Kali-santarana Upanisad<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">1\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">At the end of Dvapara-yuga Narada approached Brahma and asked,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;O glorious one, how can I cross beyond the Kali-yuga as I wander over the earth?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Brahma replied,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u201cThe question you have asked me is excellent. Please listen to this answer, which is very confidential and contains the secret of all the Vedas, an answer that will enable you to transcend the world of birth and death in the age of Kali.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Simply by chanting aloud the mantra of the holy names of Lord Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one shakes away the age of Kali.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Narada again asked,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u201cWhat is that holy name?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Brahma replied,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u201cThe sixteen words of the Hare Krishna mantra:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Hare Rama, Hare Rama,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Rama Rama, Hare Hare,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">are especially meant for counteracting the sins of the age of Kali.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">To save oneself from the contamination of this age there is no alternative but to chant the Hare Krishna mantra.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">After searching through all the Vedic literatures one cannot find a method of religion for this age so sublime as the chanting of Hare Krishna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">The sixteen words of the maha-mantra destroy the illusions that cover the conditioned soul.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">This mantra makes the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself appear as the brilliant sun appears when a host of clouds are dispersed.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">3\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Again Narada asked,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u201cO glorious one, what are the rules for chanting this mantra?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Brahma replied,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u201cThere are no rules.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Even if he is impure, a devotee who chants this mantra becomes pure. He attains the kinds of liberation known as salokya, samipya, sarupya and sayujya.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">One who chants these sixteen names forty five million times becomes free of the sin of killing a brahmana.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">He becomes free from the sin of killing a ksatriya.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">He becomes purified of the sin of stealing gold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He becomes purified of the sin of approaching a vrisali woman<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">He becomes purified of the sin of insulting pitas, demigods, or human beings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">He is at once purified of the sin of abandoning all religious duties.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">At once he becomes liberated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus says the Upanisad<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This is a section of the book \u201cBrilliant As the Sun\u201d(English).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #0000ff;\">To buy the complete book,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/brilliant-as-the-sun-english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">click here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kali-santarana Upanisad 1\u00a0 At the end of Dvapara-yuga Narada approached Brahma and asked,\u00a0 &#8220;O glorious one, how can I cross beyond the Kali-yuga as I wander over the earth?\u201d Brahma replied,\u00a0 \u201cThe question you have asked &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/kali-santarana-upanisad-6\/\" aria-label=\"Kali-santarana Upanisad\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":76071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-76070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-brilliant-as-the-sun-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 09:54:24","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\/76070","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=76070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}