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ABC television produced this program to try and answer the common question "What happened to the Hare Krishnas?" It is a very well produced national television program. Features Mukunda Goswami, Anniruddha dasa and some old gurukili matajis who were featured in television coverage of the Hare Krishna movement in the 80's.
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Jonathan 4 months agoHare Krishna. Dandavat Pranama. this is wonderful, it is beautiful to see Krishna's dear devotees, it is not so nice to hear the fall downs of these fortunate souls but it is no worry. To see how devotees grew up to marry "nondevotee" but then they are cooking for devotees! He is devotee. This is very nice. Krishna is very merciful, he says just chant Hare Krishna and dance and Srila Prabhupada has given this message to the whole world so that everyone can be happy.
spaceman 6 months ago4:35 "the children are born into it, theyve had no choice " making it sound bad. while if they were born into christian or muslim families and raised as such, it's free choice? You know its propaganda when its such news. Probably funded by some chruch.- thumb_up — 1
Tone Poet 10 months ago" You ask me who is God. He is blue and plays the bamboo flute" one of THEE most telling explanations of idolatry. Why not quote the blue dude's teachings, philosophies, positive influences on humans, plants and animals?
Some Christians:
" Who is God? He is a mani n a long with beard floating on a cloud.
"Who is the Son of God?" "He is a baby born of Virgin ". Don't you think it ALL sounds so base. Reductionustic.
YOU me WE are who we are. I am that I am. He is.
And wars are fought over our attempt to understand or explain the unexplainable. The understandable only upon death.
Mark Timeny 12 months agoHarry, Secombe, Harry Secombe,
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Radharaman Das 2 years agoHare Krishna religion is the most difficult to understand but because this is Kali Yuga with the most dull headed minds, naturally the two legged animals (aka human beings) are unable to understand it but if some fortunate soul does take part in it, his or her life will become sublime, otherwise the present society is an animal society anyway and they are not expected to understand never mind their suits, ties etc. it's not possible to understand.
lenny108 2 years agoEven the Australian TV stations were asking - what happened? Of course they couldn't figure it out and concluded another new age religion that crashed. What happened to the Australian Hare Krishnas is quickly summed up. The American Hare Krishnas ruled like colonial masters and let the Australian Hare Krishnas collect money in Australia's shopping malls 24/7. Like slaves. The money was used to buy farms and buildings. Then the Americans staged a scandal with a smart actor guru from New York - Bhavananda - and all Australian monks and nuns were expelled and chased away. "There's nothing left to see here - go home, everybody." Then the US Hare Krishna lawyers were flown in and registered all farms and buildings - also in New Zealand - as US Hare Krishna property. The US Hare Krishna leaders then filled the empty temples with imported devotees from India and that is the state of things. Somehow the Hindu communities manage to keep the temple coffers full. The Australian Hare Krishnas still stay away and no longer go there. A clever coup by the US Hare Krishnas how to make cash with the temple buildings that they have also pulled off across the whole of Europe. Legally correct but morally reprehensible. Some ex-Hare Krishnas speak of a modern US Hare Krishna mafia that works with an army of 35 lawyers. It is all about to establish a global real estate empire. This is not exactly the Sankirtan movement anymore.- spaceman 6 months agohuman nature is corrupt, those who lead must be chosen/ appointed very carefully. never the young as they will give into temptations. leader must be older, more developed who can overcome such temptations.
You 2 years agoAs soon as you hear that the kids were separated from their parents you think, hmmm i wonder who came up with that rule? And why did they make it up in the first place?
Those kind of people always flock to religions as religions always prey on the vulnerable and the lost. It's the perfect hunting ground for child abusers.- You 2 years agoIsn't it strange how most of the New Age movement / cults always seem to say nudity is whats needed, especially for the young women.
It's almost as if the blokes that start these things are trying to get laid.
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Peace Formula 3 years agoRespect for that Mataji bringing her kids up in Hare Krishna definitely get credit for that.
Put some more clothes on in the temple though it's not a fashion show 😊
Soolaba 3 years agoThis is the full version, it's only 27 minutes long. I'm the sitar-player in this film.
Joseph DiLorenzo 4 years agoGreat Video. I used to hang out with the Hare Krishna in Manhattan many years ago. I learned a great deal about the real meaning of life. I literally found myself as I searched through all kinds of scriptures. That we are not the body, but pure spirit!- thumb_up — 7
Savio Angelo Dias 4 years agoThere are beautiful things in these teachings, culture and lifestyle.
However, this mantra apparently doesn't remove darkness from one's heart, cause so much abuse happened.
Also not enough sleep is allowed, by setting hrs and hrs for rituals and mantra, one will not follow one's one intuition and guidance system anymore.
Prabhupada's books are HIGHLY judgmental, and quite outdated.
These days there are teachings that are more pure, clear, and go straight to the heart.
E.g. Abraham Hicks, Channeling Jesus & Ananda through Tina Louise Spalding.
Buddhism, Cristianity and native cultures also have so many beautiful things in it.
Erin B 4 years agoI recently visited the khrisna village for the festival , was very interesting experience , being in the temple for the sunset chanting & experiencing the mantras & food is something I’m grateful
To have been part of- thumb_up — 14
𝓙𝓪𝓬𝓴𝓼𝓸𝓷 𝓡.𝓛 🇻🇦 4 years agoThe saris are so colourful & beautiful, I've often wondered why Islamic woman would dress in black? It's so bleak. No competition just my observation/opinion. Both have beauty.- thumb_up — 3
VIJENDRA KUMAR 5 years agoMathura Museum evidences puts a question mark ?? on the existence of Krishna.- thumb_up — 3
Michael Nguyen 5 years agoI've been to the Hare Krishna temple in Melbourne and I mentioned this documentary to Aniruddha over the phone, he just responded with silence. In person when I spoke to him he also gave me a death stare. The way he is presented in this documentary makes it look like a benign documentary. I associated with Hare Krishna devotees according to the instruction of the ISKCON Cult Leader Abhay Charan Das aka Prabhupad and it ended very badly. The religion encourages dissociation from one's emotions, submission to authoritarian cult leaders, following the teachings of fake guru, and it also encourages deception, lying an presenting a false persona. This documentary is not completely accurate for people who are looking for a neutral perspective of the Hare Krishna Cult in Australia and Melbourne. This makes it look like a very normal religion like Islam, Judaism or Christianity. I've been to Catholic Church, Christian Protestant churches, to Buddhist Temples, Jewish Shuls, Islamic Mosques, Sufi Zhikrs and Hindu Temples. I would say the people at ISKCON are the worst, craziest fundamentalist mentally deranged people I have ever met in my life.- thumb_up — 1
candrika dasi 5 years agoPlease know that Iskcon of today is not the ISKCON of Srila Swami Maharaja back in the 60's and 70's. It has been infiltrated, as all good things are in kali-yuga. Srila Prabhupada knew this would happen. Before he our material vision he asked all his sincere devotees to continue chanting the Holy Names of Krsna, to read his books, and to take shelter of one of his Godbrothers, Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Gosvami Maharaja and his siksha disciple and dear friend, Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja. This they did in their thousands.
Srila Swami Maharaja has completely revolutionised the whole world. Before he came to the West, none of us knew who God really is, what His activities are, How sweet He is...Srila Prabhupada brought us love of God, and to this day many many thousands are eternally grateful to him for bringing us to the path of Bhakti Yoga, the path of devotional service to God, Sri Krsna. He once said in an answer to a reporter who told him he is brainwashing young people, " Yes, they need their brains washing from all material contamination". He was never defeated in a discussion about God, science, philosophy, not ever. Not once. Because he knows the truth. He knows who is God. His original books (yes, they have changed them also) are still available in print and they hold the all answers, as do many of our dear Acaryas sublime works.
It looks like you are sincere in following your spiritual path. From the list of religions you have named, it seems you are searching for the truth of who you are as spirit soul and what is your relationship with God, so our revered saints say to pray sincerely and a bona fide Guru will come to you.
i hope you will search more for the deeper truths than what is on the surface and find the answers and the love you seek. Please don't tar all the dear sincere devotees of Lord Krsna with the same brush.
wishing you well on your spiritual path.
Candrika dasi
Hare Krsna- thumb_up — 3
Sushanth suresh 5 years agoIt seems like you're talking about the church. The org that heads the cult that destroyed aborigines everywhere. Enslaved them . Sound familiar?
Deepak Prasad 5 years agoHARE Krishna hare Krishna Krishna Krishna hare hare hare Ram hare Ram Ram Ram hare hare- thumb_up — 1
Freki The Ravenous 5 years agoIs her son's name "KarmaDave" ? Can't make it out but that's what it sounded like. What's his dad's name, "HinduSteve" .
Sunil Agrawal 5 years agoEveryone is born with body that has needs in order to grow and to maintain the body, to keep it busy and happy during the time one lives. This give rise to the need of constant supply of food and shelter.
One can have healthy body or unhealthy with disabilities. Body goes through periods of vitality, growth, aging and fall. So, the body has periods of dependency like during childhood, old age and disability where it requires protection and supply of food. This gives rise to the need of building family and community.
Body needs are connected with nature and fellow living and non-living species. Since some people gang up and get control of natural habitats, other people struggle to survive. Somebody has to compete to survive and thrive. The people who ganged up wants others to work for them for a living. There are people who don't want to work. There are people who work still they don't get enough. This gives rise to exploitation.
To manage all these, a system is needed. The system is built by centralized control over essential resources. Such system give rise to money and power also gives rise to problems of fair share.
To solve the problem of how to make and share resources through out one's life, we ended up with a system that naturally grows bigger and powerful that enslaves some and liberates some.
As you can see how solution to one problem creates another bigger problem. Solution to the bigger problem ultimately ends into destruction and war.
Root of the problem is not sharing.
So, God comes and tells everybody, you are nobody whatever you have is mine, it is me who gave you what you have, I never make mistakes so don't argue with me and I order you to share. Problem solved.
TheKayaklover 5 years agoLike ALL religions, it is ALWAYS about women being SECOND CLASS and on Earth just to serve men and about CONTROL !!! Why do you think that ALL religious leaders are ALL men??? .... And that 'God' is always seen as being MALE??? .... Did anyone EVER thought that 'God', if it exists, is perhaps FEMALE, a WOMAN??? .... ALL religions are basically CULTS. ALL OF THEM !!!!- thumb_up — 1
Lumi Wilde 5 years agoJaye Jaye Prabhupaaaddd!!!!🎶🎶🎵🎶🙏🏾🙏🏾 the movement is STILL here and I live 15 min from that storefront Hare Krishna temple in Manhattan🙌🏾 sacred place! All glories to the assembled Devotees!!💙💙 Hare Krishna!- thumb_up — 37
Rajesh Rever 6 years agoJaiiii sriiii radhe Krishna 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏- thumb_up — 3
Life Is Yog जीवन योग है 6 years agoPeople who considered their childhood as in isolated one... When gains wisdom feel happy when their children follow the spiritual path.- thumb_up — 3
R S 6 years agoThe best way to live your life - a life intertwined with spirituality, fun, purpose and service. Krishna has shown them a beautiful way of life. They have chosen the premium version of life. The purity, simplicity and genuine joy just reflects through.- thumb_up — 15
life is full of beautiful PPL and I am one of them 6 years agoWhen westerners say they want free choice and live life their way they refer to eating anything, mating with anybody anytime , intoxicating anyday, earn millions, get richer day by day. That's the way they think life should go.
But when a spiritual guru awakens them and bring them to the reality and ask them to live a live with virtues, kindness,lead a soulful life, it's looked with frowned eyes by the ppl so madly sunk into the materialistic world.
Only the ones who are fortunate would continue to follow life as guru ji mentioned in his speeches and lectures.
Lastly the documentary somehow tried to paint the iskcon as a failure for the ppl in west. Unfortunately Western media is owned by media moguls who are deep into and live a materialistic and lustful life and commit almost all the sinful activities , would never ever understand the true meaning of iskcon and it's objectives.
Those who are a part of iskcon are very fortunate and I bow to them with all my respect . God bless the Hare Krishna consciousness 🙏🙏🙏- thumb_up — 19
- spaceman 6 months agothis is pro christian (and anti hindu since Christianity isnt accepting of other faiths) sponsored propoganda news to defame them.
Amit Chhabra 6 years agoA well rounded documentary. Shows both sides of the story. Interesting to see that despite differences with the way they were brought up the devotees keep coming back. My visits to Iskcon temples in the UK and once at Bangalore, India have been enriched by witnessing the sincerity of western devotees. Beautiful, talented people living their lives on universal principles of love, non violence and devotion. We are vegetarian and look for hare krishna restaurants whenever we visit Europe (Eastern European cities can be a vegetarian's nightmare)
Of course, there is a bit of bigotry (which is so alien to the pluralistic tradition of India) when you hear Hare Krishna people preaching. Their books say there's no salvation if you don't accept Krishna as the supreme. I don't mind that because I don't have to agree with them to visit their temples. And other religions are so full of bigotry anyway.- thumb_up — 9
- sasha mellon 5 years agoI think this is hare Krishna’s biggest downfall. Hinduism is so pluralistic , flexible and non prolyterising that this seems alien. I see them as a branch or offshoot of Hinduism for this reason. Whether the like it or not they are Hindus as far as I am concerned. Sometimes the claim they are not Hindus but they are just worshipping a guru prabhupada who isn’t a god. But they think he is
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BARGAD TVINES 5 years ago@sashamellon822 hindu means living beyond SHINDHU RIVER.....We are sanatani or sanatan dharmawalambi....those in india and are devotees call them hindu because they are in india and living beyond sindhu....but those devotees living outside call them sanatan dharm followers and most important krsnera nitya das...nowadays no hindu calls him servant of God ..he just calls him hindu because he is born in hindu family....so iskcon devotees are better sanatani or hindu than others we don't treat srila Prabhupada as god ....he is our spiritual master.....krsna is god......if you think hinduism is pluralistic and polythiestic......you are unaware of supreme self and pure philosophy.....I am sure you have never read shri mad bhagwatam and bhagwat gita.....sanatan dharma is multileval polymorphic bimonothiestic religion.....lord has said in bjagwat gita that whenever a demigod is worshipped , indirecltly and improperly he himself is worshipped......vedeshya sarvam aham Eva vedyao vedant krt ved vid Eva cha ham.....krsna said that all the Vedas are composed for his worship.......infact Vedas contain stutis of demigods also but it's core purpose is to finally understand krsna.....so hare krsna's are not fallen,they are topmost .....worshipping supreme self directly chanting his names reading gita and bhagwatam along with many other gr8 scriptures and in true sense developing their spiritual life.....🙏hari bol🙏🙏
Tito Tim Travels 4 years ago@sashamellon822 The guru can deliver the devotee to god, so they deserve respect. The guru is not god. You do not worship your guru, but you give them the same respect as god (more like practicing). 😎- thumb_up — 1
RICHA KUMARI 4 years agoin our Dharma there is one statement about God and guru is
Guru gobind singh do khare kake laguna pao , balihari guru aapne jo gobind diyo batayo .
Means if both God and guru is standing indront of u than 1stly u have to fall at the feet of guru not God bcz only the guru shows u the way to reach God. That's why guru is great .
This is sanatan Dharma.
Now comes to belief system ,u know our religion has not single God nor single book nor God message of what to do .if any divine entity comes to our land we still ask question to him . And bhagwadgita is answer of arjun question by God krishna .
Our Dharma just gives us method to reach close to God and experience beyond this world .
One more thing we worship sun , moon ,mountain ,ocean ,river , tree, snake almost everything that found in nature and when we meet to another person we bow down to him and said namaskar. This means we consider that God found in every particle of matter .
This is the way we give respect to each other and preserve nature .
That's all .
And sanatan Dharma talk about salvation I.e absolute freedom and there are 4 ways to achieve salvation - bhakti , gyan , karma, hath .and this hare krishna is the one of the bhakti ways , people is free to choose any path and they are also free to not choose any path and live luxury life . This is just one aspect of sanatan Dharma. Being a hindu even I don't know much thing about our Dharma bcz it is so much in detail .
Before understanding anything I don't know why people give their opinion .
It's better to 1st understand thing than comment .
Pramod Digital Academy 6 years agoOur Hinduism says, when you born then you are a child and parents must take care of yours , education must be rough and tough as life is not easy which we get in Gurukul(spiritual name of school) where we learn to do our stuff by ourself, once you are adult, must listen and respect your parents and obey them no matter if they shout on you..And when parents get older then you become father/Mother of your parents, now its your turn to take care of them, listen and respect till the time they are alive.. that's how caring about family thought comes in you and you enjoy a joint family and learn from your parents's experience as they are there to guide you always which is very common in India.
Our parents know how the world is, real face of world as they have life through experience, so by serving , respecting, listening them we can learn a lot to deal ahead.. AND THESE ARE THINGS WHAT "HARE RAMA HARE KRISHNA" is all about.- thumb_up — 7
- BARGAD TVINES 5 years agoNo this is not all.....most of things you have written are proper and alligned with pure philosophy.....but somethings I want to add.......look pure knowledge and knowledge of self actualisation and god consciousness is drived out scriptures,guru,acaryas and parents .
But parents are the most criticle teachers.....to become a pure deliverer of knowledge you are required to know the knowledge ,not totally but it's summary is necessary then parents can teach their children.....but nowadays parents are hugely driven by materialistic conceptions.....they don't want their children to study scriptures....they are demons like hiranyakasipu.......and such parents are cause of degradation of initial life of child.......ofcourse there are good parents also belonging to different religious organisations like iskcon,brahma samprdaay,rudra sampradaay,shri sampradaay,gaudiya math,etc.i....who teach their child the right way of living....otherwise above 90% of parents are disastrous.....ye parents should be served but their advise should be taken only when they are religious.....we should always remember that most important thing is developing devotion and going back home back to godhead......
sudhanshu kumar 6 years agoWhat do you want to give a child as choice?
Chocolate flavour or vanila flavour.
Seriously!- thumb_up — 4
The Leviathan 6 years agoDeranged Drug addicted, alcoholics depressed materialist calling hare Krishnas radicals LMAO- thumb_up — 1
Pratik Nath 6 years agoReally the interview feels soo biased. I have never seen ISKCON people say the world is evil. If they say it is taught there then i doubt what they have learned is half . And hindu religion doesn't demonize other cultures like the other Abrehamic religion- thumb_up — 26
- Life Is Yog जीवन योग है 6 years agoThat's what I thought... They would have never said that. Hinduism who especially follow kirtan way never consider the world as evil rather they consider it as a ray of hope.
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- BARGAD TVINES 5 years agoNot the world is evil according to iskcon . It is made because of material energy of lord......the conception of being connected to it and use it for sense enjoyment is bad....🙏thank you🙏🙏hari bol
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- Xena warrior princess 1 year agoThey were sued including abuse against children, kid napping, Brain washing sexual assaults.violating rights against others..
- Xena warrior princess 1 year agoRecent reminder that the world can also sue Islamic institutions..
Not a generalized ill will . Don't get me wrong.. some are beautiful people.. - spaceman 6 months agothe west runs a lot of propaganda and hate against hindus ... and they preach india to be more and more accepting of other faiths, despite the hindus compromising a lot than others
Yash Dalal 6 years agoSo they called our Hindu brothers radicals? Does that mean in India we can call Christian or muslims as radicals? I guess can't expect better from these. Very courageous of them to follow it where people oppose it so badly.- thumb_up — 82
GOAT Insta Edits 4 years agoOh u misunderstood that meaning of radical, it means krantikari... It's not the radicalisation of Muslims.- thumb_up — 2
- Yash Dalal 4 years ago@Insta-edits8 radical doesn't mean krantikari.krantikari means freedom fighter
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- GOAT Insta Edits 4 years ago@Lok_Seva_Ayurvedic oh brother, in India we used the term krantikari to call our freedom fighters because they are doing something revolutionary, but radical too means krantikari, there are different meanings of single words in all languages.
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- Xena warrior princess 1 year agoThe organization was sued over and over. Thank you.. it reminded the world we can Sue Islamic organizations too
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- spaceman 6 months agosecular preaching west doesn't want to be secular and accepting of different faiths themselves .. who would've guessed.
- spaceman 6 months ago@CherylRyanRoberts eye for an eye ofc.... feel no obligation to respect those who disrespect you over and over
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