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The Kulis -- Hare Krishna Youth

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  • Part 2 of KrishnaFest On the DC Capital Mall. During the 1990's Hare Krishna devotees were daily performing Sankirtan [the congregational chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra] on the Capital Mall in Washington DC outside the Smithsonian Museum. The KrishnaFest team performed dynamic kirtana on the mall in front of the Smithsonian Museum.
    This was a very ecstatic preaching program that engaged the hundreds of thousands of students and others who visited Washington DC during the Spring and Summer.
    The program was lead by Gunagrahi Swami and his KrishnaFest team. This program continued in the Spring and Summer for a number of years in the 1990's.
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  • LEX37
    LEX37 2 years agoRay Cappo 😐
    • L.D. Agarwal
      L.D. Agarwal 5 years agoHare Krishna Hare Ram
      • laz Iacoff
        laz Iacoff 5 years agoI guess a lot of what went on in the nineties was preparing the people for the present day events of mass demonstrations taking place asking people to be either poked or not poked. Are thing working out the way Rama and Krishna decided for it to be? Thanks.
        • Krishna Tube
          Krishna Tube 5 years agoKrishna consciousness is preparing for the time of death. A devotee does not care very much for the trials and tribulations of the material world. He knows the material world is a place of misery where there is only repetition of birth and death.

          So for the devotee the idea is to transcend the material world and to raise his consciousness to the spiritual platform, to Krishna consciousness. And the best way to do that in this age is to chant:

          Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

          Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

          So the idea of this program was to encourage the people to chant the Hare Krishna mantra so they can get some attachment to it and by chanting the Hare Krishna mantra raise their consciousness to the spiritual platform so they are no longer concerned with the happiness and distress of the material world, but are absorbed in the transcendental bliss of the spiritual world.

          The idea is to remember Krishna at the time of death, because our consciousness at the time of death determines our future destination. So if we can remember Krishna at the time of death, we don't have to come back to the material world again, but instead we go back home, back to Godhead.