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...totally outside science may come back and be incorporated within its framework." The eminent German physicist-philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker believes that such a unity already exists. At his in stitute outside Munich, he is attempting to show the essential convergence between Eastern mysticism and Western science. Gopi Krishna, an exponent of Kundalini Yoga, was his guest there for six months. From their discussions, Weizsacker has become increasingly convinced that "mysticism is one of the great discov eries of mankind." He adds: "It may turn out to be far more important than our time is inclined to believe...
...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...
...Krishna Consciousness people, Lord Krishna is "the sweetest" god. Generally Hindus acknowledge an entire panoply of personal deities who are seen as manifestations of the Infinite-the ultimate reality or Absolute which they understand in many ways and most often call Brahman. The principal focus of spirituality is union with that Absolute. Above all else, the Hindu desires a release from the physical world of appearances in order to realize his identity with Brahman. This oneness is not easy to achieve; it is the reward of the holy man, who can then finally break out of the cycle of endless...
...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...
Screenplay by KRISHNA SHAH...