Service started at 7:15 with Deity Greeting. The priest

Personality of Godhead, Please engage me in Your service. Maha Mantra meditation cleanses and purifies the heart, and awakens the dormant love for God that is naturally there. Maha Mantra meditation can be done as congregational singing, or as private meditation on beads, or simply all the time while doing daily activities.

It is very difficult for me to describe a Hare Krishna service. So many things are happening and one would need pages and pages to present everything accurately. Some of the members were dressed “normally” but mostly they were wearing traditional Indian clothes. Women were wearing colorful saris and men were wearing cloth wrapped around their body called dhoti and shirt called kurta. Men that were in white were married, and in orange were in celibate order. They could get married but once they take sannyas (recognized by a stick or sannyas cloth that they wear) they cannot get married. Women could not take sannays. It was only for the men. Either women that were wearing completely white saris were widowed or women that are not planning to get married. Usually that is reserved for older women. It is their symbol for rejection. Hare Krishna experience has been very refreshing. There were many young people there. Their way of worship is full with little details, lively, and entertaining. Members of Hare Krishna were surprisingly helpful and very cheerful.

Krishna is the supreme personality of Godhead. Krishna is also one of the names of God in Sanskrit. Krishna is believed to be the cause of all causes. Hare Krishna’s follow the Vedic scriptures of ancient India, most of which were written 5000 years ago. There are many of them but the Hare Krishna movement is mainly based upon two: Bhagavad-Gita, which was spoken by Krishna and deals with the science of the soul and spiritual life, and Srimad Bhagavatam, which is about Krishna and His devotees, and describes creation, Krishna’s many pastimes and incarnations. The Prabhupada is the spiritual master who brought this knowledge to the west. A great pure devotee of Krishna and a great Sanskrit scholar, he came over to this countr

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