Word: krishnas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...International Society for Krishna Consciousness was founded four years ago by the Indian Swami Bhaktivedanta. It now has active chapters in every major American city, and thousands of adherents throughout Western Europe and Japan. For these devotees, Bhaktivedanta possess Krishna knowledge. He is their spiritual master...
...eternal forms, one devotees has written, Krishna is God. This must be understood. When he is playing as Child Krishna on the lap of his mother Yasoda, he is God; when he appears as the half-lion half-man form of Nrishingadeva, he is God; and as Baraha, in the form of a boar, he is the same transcendental Supreme Lord...
...Krishna is a spiritual being. His nature transcends the physical, and, in eluding his followers, he disguises himself in a never-ending reincarnation of physical masquerades. Bhaktivedanta is the religiously and historically designated intermediary between Krishna and his mankind of followers. It is he who governs their physical and spiritual lives in the observance of divine being...
DEVOTEES live according to four basic rules. They do not gamble, drink, engage in "illicit" sex, or cat meat. They live communally in Krishna temples, and feed themselves on sweets and spices whose recipes are taken from Vedic texts. They do as little as possible to expend themselves in physical self-flattery...
After several minutes of preliminary chanting, the ceremony is about to begin. Drama is the force and substance of Krishna knowledge, and the practice of Krishna observance will be conveyed by skit...