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Helena · Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 75 Location: yorkshire, UK

Hare Krishna
International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON)

Hare Krishna is the most distinguishable cult of the Seventies thanks to the obligatory shaved head and pigtails of male members, chanting and singing and dancing in the big Western cities with saffron robes to the music of cymbals, drums and harmoniums... and collecting money!... receiving donations for the Gita, and door-to door selling of their magazine "Back to the Godhead".

- They use the "pigtails" to be plucked up by Krishna when he rescues them at the time of the deliverance of the world... however, they use "wigs" for the many money-making schemes: charities, asking money for the poor, orphans, Vietnam widows, against drugs... working in big sports, pop concerts, selling car stickers and badges, without permission, of course!...

- But after 100 million Gitas distributed, plus 500,000 monthly periodicals of "Back to Godhead", the "innocence" of those flower-power days is gone... no more contributions now!... a famous contributor was the Beatle G. Harrison.

Founded in 1966,

By His Divine Grace Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhuda, born in Calcutta, India, as Abhay Charan De. He came to New York with $8 in his pocket, and 11 years later, in 1977, he died of heart failure, after setting up a multi-million-dollar business empire with 40 temples and 3,000 followers in the USA alone.

- Today, they claim a membership of 2 million, but the Center Roger Ikor of Paris puts it at 15,000 devotees worldwide.

- The headquarters are now at 3764 Watseka Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90034, USA.

The "Krishna Consciousness",

Consists in committing yourself totally for life to Krishna; to live in Krishna, and Krishna in you... something similar to Christianity!... until you reach a Heaven similar to Christianity, after many reincarnations...

The "devotees" are the most pitiful people... for 2 reasons:

1- The "god Krishna", to whom they commit their lives, never existed... he is only a hero-warrior of the "Gita", the 18th chapter of the "novel Mahabaratha", written in 100 AC. And their other "god Rama" never existed, he is only a hero of the "novel Ramayana"... but they never existed, and they do not exist right now... they are like Hamlet or Sherlock Holmes... never existed!... only in the minds of the novelists!.

- And on top of it, Krishna, in the novel, is a "erotic-god", with a favorite mistress named Radha, and 16,108 gopis ("women cowherds"), and the good "god-Krishna" fathered 10 children with each one of them over a period of 125 years!. This is the reason why the Krishnas ware a necklace-rosary with "108 beats", to chant the mantra "Hare Krishna" 108 times, and repeat it "16 times a day", with a total of 1,728 times per day.

- The "mantra" "Hare Krishna",

has also "16 words": "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare Hare; Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare": "Hare" means "the supreme energy of the Lord".

2- The second reason why the Krishna devotees are pitiful, is because they have a Spartan poor suffering life, with six hours of sleep daily, hard work and prayer, and very strict sexual life, while their teachers live in super-luxury, surrounded by many women, following the example of the 16,108 lovers Krishna had, and, in the name of Krishna, have done anything bad you can think of: Murder, drug-running, sexual abuse, theft, deception, extortion, suicide... you name it!.

Eleven Jurisdictions:

In 1977, at the death of Bhaktivedanta, the rich Krishna Empire divided into 11 independent Jurisdictions, with 11 Gurus:

In the USA:
Kirtanananda had a dream to create "America's Taj Mahal"; so he built a huge "Palace of Gold" in West Virginia, with 200 tons of marble, with the dome roof and outside walls coated with 22 carat gold leaf... all of it with money the devotes gave and made, with the traffic of drugs, charity schemes, asking money for the poor, orphans, widows...

-Chakradara was murdered because he opened a nursery and the money was not going to the guru...
- and later, Kirtanananda himself as attacked by a disgruntled follower who sank a spike into his guru's skull; Kirtanananda survived, but walks with sticks since, and keeps 2 Alsatian dogs with him at all times, day and night...

In England: The guru Jayatirtha was murdered by his disciple Tiernan because he was using LSD to obtain the ecstatic dances, and because he had a harem at home... Tiernan is in a mental hospital.

In Australia: The guru in charge was expelled for practicing homosexuality... but continues to act as a guru, and runs his empire in Mafia stile.

In Japan: The Guru Kripa, an American ex-Marine sergeant, developed more money-making-scams than anyone else. He taught his followers to pickpocket, rob jewelry stores... he was eventually jailed in Holland... but since 1981 he can be seen chanting in ISKCON temples in America.

The Life of a Krishna:
With all of this going on, still about 15,000 devotees try to obtain "Krishna Consciousness", using 3 methods:
...1- Obeying a Guru, who is like god for them.
...2- Live a very austere life: They sleep 6 hours on a hard floor, no alcohol, no meat, no fish, no conversation unrelated to Krishna. They give up all possessions. If anyone tries to talk with them out of Krishna, he is of Satan. Live in celibacy until marriage, and then they can have sex only after repeating the mantra for 5 hours.
...3- Chant the mantra for at least 5 hours daily, pray the Gita, receive indoctrination, and hard work!.