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On Sunday, August 10, 2003, my cousin and I attended the evening Arati (worship) service at New Orleans Krishna Temple. The worship began at 7:00 A.M. and lasted until 8:45 A.M. then a vegetarian feast followed. At the Krishna Temple, we met Indulekha Devi dasi who explained to us many aspects of their worship. The temple room itself was very impressive. On one side of the temple was a statue of Srila Prabhubada, the spiritual master who brought the Hare Krishna movement to the West. On the opposite side, there was a very big altar with the Deities. The temple room was filled with pictures representing different incarnations of God. Before entering the temple room, a person has to take off his or her shoes. As soon as they enter the temple room, I noticed that all of the devotees (that is how Hare Krishna members call themselves) bow down. Indulekha explained to us that they are offering obeisance to God and the spiritual master. Some of the devotees would knock on the entrance door or ring the bells above the entrance door, letting the Deities in the temple know that they are entering. Women were standing on one side of the room and the men on the other side.
Service started at 7:15 with Deity Greeting. The priest
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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 o
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James' Varieties of Religious Experience William James' Varieties of Religious Experience is a series of lectures the great psychologist delivered in 1901-1902 on the subject of the existential |
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Non-Western Religions The research will set forth the general nature of the human religious experience, with particular emphasis on prehistoric and tribal religions and then discuss |
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