Hare Krishna Maha Mantra on the World’s Largest Mirror | Salar de Uyuni Kirtan

The sky above you is real. The sky below you is a reflection. Standing on the Salar de Uyuni after the rains, you cannot tell which is which, and perhaps that is the point. The Vedic seers taught that we live among reflections. We mistake the body for the self, the shadow for the substance, and the passing for the permanent. The mind is a mirror, but it is covered with the dust of a thousand desires and fears, so it shows us only a distorted world and a distorted self. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu named the remedy in the first verse of his Shikshashtakam: ceto-darpana-marjanam. The holy name cleans the mirror of the heart. This film follows that idea across a single day. A drum strike breaks the silence before dawn, and a ripple spreads across the water. The sound does not fight the stillness. It travels through it and changes it, and the surface it touches becomes a little clearer. A family who never met these strangers hears the sound from far away and walks toward it. Nobody explains the mantra to them, because the sound carries its own meaning. When the wind comes and breaks the mirror into a thousand pieces, the singing continues. When the wind drops, the mirror re-forms, and the stars appear above and below. Hare. Krishna. Rama. These are names of the one who is all-attractive and the energy that draws us back to Him. The mantra asks no credentials, only attention. It is sung the same way by a Swede, a Brazilian, a Ghanaian, a Japanese monk and an Aymara grandmother, because the soul does not carry a passport. If you have only ten minutes today, spend them here. Let the sound do what thoughts cannot, and for a little while, stand between two skies. 🎶 Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare