God Is One: When Hare Krishna Chanting Shatters Your Hangover and Theology
I wasn’t planning to write today. Not after the kind of night I had. Not with this hangover hissing in my skull. But the universe had other plans.
Out of nowhere, the street outside my window exploded with chanting “Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna… Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare…“
It wasn’t subtle. It wasn’t brief. They went at it for twenty minutes straight, clapping, drumming, praising — like the Divine Himself was about to descend through the clouds. I was just trying to skip a YouTube ad.
The Noise That Forced Me to Listen
At first, I was irritated. Then curious. Then completely drawn in. Who are these guys? What are they chanting for? Why were they dancing barefoot in public while I was dying quietly on the couch with stale breath and regret? So I did what any modern seeker does: I Googled.
Who Is Krishna, Really?
Turns out, the Hare Krishna movement — officially called ISKCON — believes in Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Not just a god. The God.
To them, Krishna is the source of all existence. The creator, sustainer, destroyer, and ultimate friend. The chant — “Hare Krishna Hare Rama” — is a kind of sonic call to the Divine, meant to reconnect the soul with its eternal source.
Okay. I could roll with that. But then it got complicated.
Religion’s Great Contradiction: “Your God Isn’t My God”
In some corners of the internet, people were debating — loudly — that Allah isn’t the same as Krishna, or that Yahweh has nothing to do with Vishnu, or that Jesus is the only true revelation of God. Each tribe defending its logo. Each tradition narrowing the scope of who God is allowed to be. But then a quiet question hit me like a revelation:
If God is truly Supreme, can anything or anyone else even compete? If God is truly the Alpha and Omega, the All, the Infinite, then how can there be other versions of Him? Wouldn’t that make Him… not infinite?
What If God Can Exist and Not Exist?
Now here’s where it gets wild. If God is all-powerful, then by definition, He must have the ability to:
- Exist and not exist
- Be personal and impersonal
- Show up in a mosque, temple, nightclub, or street chant
Because true Supreme Power means the ability to transcend human logic entirely.
A God who only behaves in ways we understand isn’t a God — He’s a glorified mascot.
Maybe God isn’t bound by our labels at all. Maybe the real issue is we keep shrinking Him down to fit our doctrines.
So Where Does That Leave Us?
It leaves us exactly where I was —Half-conscious, listening to Krishna chants outside my window, trying to silence the world with technology while God used a group of barefoot strangers to slap me awake. It leaves us standing in the middle of contradiction — where logic fails, but awe begins.
And maybe that’s where God has always been waiting. Not in our control. Not in our theology.
But in our surrender to what we can’t explain — and our openness to the idea that He is all of it, and more.
Alpha Blondy Knew It All Along
You want to summarize this madness in one sentence?
Alpha Blondy already did:
“God is One.”
(from the song “God Is One”, 1983)
That’s it. Not mine. Not yours. Just One.
You can call Him Krishna, Allah, Yahweh, The Most High, The Supreme Consciousness, or just God.
He doesn’t need your label. He just is. Whether you’re chanting, running, doubting, or writing through a hangover —He’s still there.
If God is truly all-powerful, then He must have the power to exist and not exist — and still be God.”
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