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Dedicated to "propagating god consciousness for the benefit of mankind," ISKCON has tried to appeal to intellectuals by emphasizing the tradition and scripture of its movement, deriving from the Vedic literature, especially the 5000 year old Bagavad-Gita. Here at Harvard, Garuda Das, a Hare Krishna priest and Divinity School student, hopes to form a Harvard-Radcliffe Vaishnava Society dedicated to exploring the religion, philosophy and culture of India's devotional tradition...
Women have the same rights as men in the Hare Krishna movement. Garuda's wife is a priest and has the same religious powers as any male priest. However, women usually do not leap and jump directly in front of the altar because they may "agitate" the male devotees, Garuda says. Many of the women dance behind the men and watch over their children during the aroti, signifying a somewhat different role, even within the movement...
Garuda has been personally affected by one case of U.S. reaction against the movement. Although he is a Hare Krishna priest, last fall he was denied associate membership to the United Ministries, an ecumenical religious organization...
...have had a wider influence. He administered to the spy thriller its most potent dose of modern disillusionment. As a Roman Catholic convert with an unblinking eye for guilt and evil, he gave the bulky 19th century Russian soul opera a fresh English tailoring. The trials of a "whisky priest" in The Power and the Glory are, perhaps, the prime example of such styling...
Castle is one of Greene's patented Manichaean depressives, those saintly sinners whose jobs (crime, the priest hood, spying) allow the author to compose variations on his favorite themes: the pervasiveness of evil and the saving graces of kindness, love and even disloyalty. For Greene, disloyalty to institutions that threaten his ideals of individualism and humanism is a privilege, if not a right...