Our 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.
No 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......
Really 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
Not 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
A 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.
@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🙏🙏
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.
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......
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.