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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...
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...
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...
...must learn this Vedic chant," begins one devotee to a mock disciple, "and recite it three times a day. But you cannot speak it aloud. You must say it softly to yourself...