Word: krishnas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most visible form of Hinduism in the West is the Krishna Consciousness movement, founded in the U.S. in 1966 by Swami A.C. Bhaktivedanta. Its saffron-robed "Hare Krishna" chanters are found on the street corners of many American cities. Like many Hindus, they abstain from meat and alcohol-even from eggs, which they see as embryonic life. A married woman is expected to renounce sex when she is 30 and send her children away to a school in Texas. Like austere Christian monks, the group members rise in the middle of the night to pray. Their Hare Krishna mantra...
...sake. But their hareditary diseases, bred of poverty and neglect, remind him of the alleged physical force contaminating the younger generation. When he then looks for spiritual salvation, however, he cannot avoid the concrete realities surrounding him in city streets and hospital corridors. Bends of bearded youths and have krishna dancers with the faces of cheerleaders allow him to toy with the idea of a Second Coming. The end won't come that easily, though, and his struggle to attain grace becomes merely a grasping at identity, an identity that wavers between Europe and America, father, murderer, surgeon and witch...
Directed by KRISHNA SHAH...
Screenplay by KRISHNA SHAH...
...people to be equal human beings. Last spring. I helped plan demonstrations with so-called radicals for whom workers were essentially an abstraction, radicals who invoked one thinker or another to justify manipulating the lives of others. It grieved me because I felt their end was good as indeed. Krishna's followers may do good work. So do the Libertanians invoke the individual as God. So do the bearers of tradition invest Harvard with that sanctity...