{"id":289,"date":"2010-10-01T23:58:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/?p=289"},"modified":"2011-05-21T23:58:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T15:58:24","slug":"the-maha-mantra-hansadutta-presents-the-science-of-krishna-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/2010\/10\/01\/the-maha-mantra-hansadutta-presents-the-science-of-krishna-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maha Mantra &#8211;  Hansadutta presents the science of Krishna Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of California at Berkeley,<br \/>\nProfessor Sherri Roush&#8217;s class on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hansadutta.com\/glossary.php#Epistemology\">Epistemology<\/a><br \/>\nSep 24, 2010 (Part 1 of 9)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TvWoBscTdKc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TvWoBscTdKc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s our tradition, or it&#8217;s an essential part of the program to chant the maha-mantra. &#8230; The whole idea is to chant the maha-mantra for some time before we attempt to make a serious or meaningful presentation in terms of knowledge. The example is just like at the beginning of the class &#8211; at least when I was a little boy &#8211; the teacher wiped the whole slate clean, and then we were ready for a new day. So it&#8217;s like that. It&#8217;s meant to kind of clear your mind and make it more receptive and attentive and available to the subject matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of California at Berkeley, Professor Sherri Roush&#8217;s class on Epistemology Sep 24, 2010 (Part 1 of 9) It&#8217;s our tradition, or it&#8217;s an essential part of the program to chant the maha-mantra. &#8230; The whole idea is to chant &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/2010\/10\/01\/the-maha-mantra-hansadutta-presents-the-science-of-krishna-consciousness\/\">more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hansadutta.com\/hansadutta-as-it-is\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}