Word: gita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bhaktivedanta's followers say that he teaches "in direct disciplic succession from the original Eastern literature. What he says has been going on for thousands of years." His instruction is mainly from the Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Gita, two Indian religious scriptures...
...Glendale Ave., a narrow street in Allston, serves as their temple. The first members of Krishna Consciousness rented it in October, 1967. Inside is a small room decorated with painting of the Krishna mythology, India print material and pictures of the swami. There are i of the Bhagavad-Gita and records of chants for sale...
Krishna Consciousness holds services three times a week at the temple. These ceremonies consist of chants, dancing and readings from the Bhagavad-Gita. They also prepare an Indian love feast on Sundays. Although attendance is large in the winter, only 30 people have attended this summer
...course the best descriptions of transcendent states is not necessarily either contemporary or western. D. T. SUZUKI's essays on Satori, the poetry of VEDANTA, the Bhagavad Gita, CHRIST's Sermon on the Mount, all put into word what is ultimately wordless, ineffable, breathtaking, transcendent, God-knowing...
...Maharishi has been sharply criticized by other Indian sages, who complain that his program for spiritual peace without either penance or asceticism contravenes every traditional Hindu belief. His critics are also upset by the Maharishi's claim that the Bhagavad Gita, Hinduism's epic religious poem, has been wrongly interpreted by most previous commentators. The Maharishi contends that its real lesson is that "any man, without having to renounce his way of life, can enjoy the blessings of all these paths" by simply following his own meditative technique...