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As a snake-bitten man is brought back to consciousness by the chanting of

certain mantras, so one in the unconscious state of material life can be

revived by hearing the mah€-mantra:

In the Garua Pur€a the stress on hearing is expressed very nicely. It is

said there: “The state of conditioned life in the material world is just

like a man Iying unconscious, having been bitten by a snake. This is because

both such unconscious states can be ended by the sound of a mantra.” When a

man is snake-bitten he does not die immediately, but first becomes

unconscious and remains in a comatose condition. Anyone who is in the

material world is also sleeping, as he is ignorant of his actual self or his

actual duty and his relationship with God. So materialistic life means that

one is bitten by the snake of m€y€, illusion, and thus, without any K™¢a

consciousness, he is almost dead. Now, the so-called dead man bitten by a

snake can be brought back again to life by the chanting of some mantra.

There are expert chanters of these mantras who can perform this feat.

Similarly, one can be brought back into K™¢a consciousness from the deadly

unconscious state of material life by hearing of the mah€-mantra: Hare

K™¢a, Hare K™¢a, K™¢a K™¢a, Hare Hare/ Hare R€ma, Hare R€ma, R€ma R€ma,

Hare Hare.

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