Word: vedic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where he could best develop his art. Everywhere are indications of ancient religions and the traditions. Sacred cows walk the streets, shrines are at the feet of Bombay streetlamps, most homes have puja (worship) rooms and an idol of the household deity. People are named after characters in the Vedic scriptures...
...trillion, 40 million years. This twitch in the flank of eternity is divided into a thousand cycles of four ages. The first is golden with virtue, wisdom and religion. Vice is introduced in the second age and the universe goes downhill thereafter. We are, according to the ancient Vedic text, some 5,000, years into Kaliyuga, the final, corrupt age. This cycle should all be over in about 427,000 years...
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...
India's unique gift to the world is her meditative tradition and the holy men the Vedic culture has produced throughout history...
...other disciples have overheard the last part of this exchange, and by now they mistakenly assume that they can remain partly independent of Bhaktivedanta and still progress toward Krishna. They begin to pick Vedic fruits for the devotee, despite the fact that he has forbidden them...