हरे राम हरे राम राम राम हरे हरे।
हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे॥
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare,
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare.
Meaning
O Hari, O Rama; O Hari, O Krishna: a calling of the Lord’s names, sixteen in all. Hare is the vocative of Hari, the one who takes away, and is also understood in the Gaudiya tradition as a call to Hara, his divine energy, Shri Radha. Rama is the one in whom yogis delight and Krishna the all-attractive one.
About this bhajan
The sixteen-word mantra comes from the Kali-santarana Upanishad, where Brahma tells Narada that in Kali Yuga no means is higher than these names; the Upanishad gives it beginning with “Hare Rama”, and the Gaudiya tradition usually chants it beginning with “Hare Krishna”. Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu made it the centre of public kirtan in Bengal and Odisha in the sixteenth century, and Gaudiya Vaishnavas count it daily on tulsi beads, sixteen rounds of 108.
Kali-santarana Upanishad (mantra as given there)