scientific study Hare Krishna Chanting

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David Wolf (Dhira Govinda dasa), for his Ph.D. in Social Work at Florida

State University, conducted an experiment on the value of chanting the Hare

Krsna maha mantra. Through newspaper ads he recruited about 90 participants

who were previously unfamiliar with the Hare Krsna maha mantra. They were

divided into three groups. One group chanted the maha mantra three rounds per

day, which takes about 25 minutes, for 28 days. Another group chanted three

rounds per day of a mantra that Dr. Wolf concocted, and the third group

didn't chant any mantra. Each group completed a packet of surveys before the

first day of chanting, after the 28th day, and 4 weeks after the 28th day. In

the packet was a standardized survey measuring stress, a survey measuring

depression, and a survey, developed by Dr. Wolf, that assesses the Vedic

psychological constructs of sattva, or goodness, rajas, or passion, and

tamas, or darkness. In accord with Vedic theory, the maha mantra group

decreased their stress, depression, and tamas, and increased their sattva,

compared with the other two groups. The factors of gender and age were

statistically controlled in this experiment. This experiment provides some

evidence for the use of the Hare Krsna maha mantra as a therapeutic tool.

After Dr. Wolf's oral defense, several professors and graduate students

commented that they were impressed with Dr. Wolf's incorporation of spiritual

practice into scholarly scientific pursuits.

 

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