"Hare is not Hari but Hara"
---We may think Rama means Dasaratha Rama, or that Hare sometimes means Nrsimhadev, but in the ultimate sense, it will come that here Hare is not Hari but Hara.
---Hara becomes Hare. Hara means She who can capture, who can snatch the highest position. So, we find Radhika. Why? She can snatch away the mind of Krishna, what to speak of others. Hara means Radha in the highest sense of harana, stealing, snatching—attracting. So, Hare Krishna means Radha Krishna. Krishna is He who attracts everybody, and Rama is He who can please everybody, and more specifically Radha-ramana Rama, He who can please even Radhika.
With the sense that Rama means He who holds the supreme position of attracting and pleasing everyone, we enter Krishna-lila and find that Rama is Krishna and Hara is Radha. Those who enter that plane cannot deviate from it to any other plane. The plane of Ramachandra is mixed with morality, politics, satisfying subjects, protecting the people, and so on. The absolute transaction of love, in parakiya-rasa especially, is found in Krishna-avatar. When one enters that plane, one becomes charmed there and can’t come down to see things from any other plane. It is the central and highest position, and gradually we are to come to know that.
Srila Bhakti Raksaka Sridhar Dev Goswami Maharaj
Source: Spoken on 2 October 1981
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