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[Rteacher]

Sri Krishna Chaitanya (aka Mahaprabhu, Gauranga, Gaurahari and Gaurachandra and Sachisuta...) advented himself just over 500 years ago in Mayapur/Navadvipa, West Bengal India. The details of his appearance (including the names of his parents and his mission) were predicted long before in various Vedic scriptures. http://www.acbspn.com/godhead/gaura_1predictions.htm

Followers of the Bengali (Gaudiya) Vaishnavas (devotees of Vishnu as the Supreme God) accept that he was factually the Supreme Lord Krishna who appeared as a devotee to demonstrate how to attain love of God in this fallen age of Kali (quarrel and hypocrisy) by the simple, sublime method of chanting transcendental names of God - most specifically the Hare Krishna Maha-mantra:

Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare
Hari Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Lord Chaitanya transformed the face of India in four respects: philosophically, by encountering, defeating and converting the greatest philosophers and thinkers of His day; religiously, by organizing the largest, most widespread theistic movement in India's history; socially, by His strong challenges to the religious inequities of the caste system; politically, by His organization of a massive civil disobedience movement in Bengal, more than four centuries before Gandhi.
http://www.thekrishnastore.com/Detail.bok?no=1786&bar=

He spread the chanting of Hare Krishna all over India, converted many Muslim and Buddhist leaders, and even induced wild tigers and lions to chant and dance in ecstacy (described in the 17 volume Chaitanya Caritamrita translated by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada...) Many considered that he was a drunken madman, but pure devotees realized that Krishna had appeared in the mood of a devotee at the highest level of ecstatic love of God in order to experience the mellow (or rasa) of intense devotion in separation...

Millions of people (mostly Bengali Hindus and Hare Krishna congregation members at temples around the world) celebrate Gaura Purnima by fasting and chanting till moonrise, then feasting. (eg: http://www.krishnatemple.com/events/gpurnima.shtm)

For those rare souls who may be interested in a comprehensive article on the teachings of Lord Chaitanya, the following link is recommended: http://caitanya.krishna.org/Articles/2004/12/016.html

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

Shut up.

Sparkles*_*

[just because]

That was nasty Sparkles....

I lived near a Hari krishna farm in Australia and i hate to be a *beep* but they didn't smell the best at times

[Rteacher]

Did you live in this vicinity?

Every farm is gonna have strong odors from cow dung, etc. Usually Krishna devotees have plenty of incense and scented oils ... (And, obviously, all that "sparkles" isn't gold...)

[Rteacher]

Here are a few devotee artist renditions of Lord Chaitanya:


As the Lord passed through Vrndavana, all the moving and nonmoving entities showed great affection and became very jubilant to see the Lord.


To bestow mercy upon Sarvabhauma Bhatacarya, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu manifested His four-handed Visnu form and then His original form as Krishna.


Lord Caitanya in a trance, recalling the pastimes of Krishna, Radharani, and the gopis.

[chest rockwell]

put some shoes on hippie

[indytrucks]

Q: What looks good on a Hare Krishna vegan hippie?

















































A: Fire.

[Rteacher]

Hare Krishna followers tend to be neither vegans nor hippies (though when the movement began in the U.S. in the late 60s many hippies were drawn to it. If they chose to stick with it they had to give up most of their hippie ways... Devotees are generally lacto-vegetarians.

(Of course, most people who aren't devotees and who go out of their way to offend them tend to be ignorant jerks ...)

[Dan The Chainsawman]

I got matches...

anyone got a tin of gas?

[itaewonguy]

most of you all dont understand the Krishna and you will never!
so thats why you bash it!
typical really isn't? bash what you dont understand!

the Hare Krishna are deep! VERY DEEP!!

[Rteacher]

(Anyway, the guy in the photo smells more like a Buddhist... )There were a lot of self-immolations by Buddhist monks protesting the Viet Nam war...

[spike.matt]

I am neither a member of the hare krishna congregation nor am I a hindu, but I believe rteacher has a right to say what he/she will. So do the people that have insulted his/her views. It is sad to see peole just viciously attacking just because rteacher has choosen to make a statment about a certain belief system. I think that says more about the people making the rude comments than rteacher who is making the original statements.

why is it so difficult to have open discussion about a topic? I freely admit, this topic I know nothing about. That doesnt mean that it's a load of sh**.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

That painting with the tiger hugging the elk is possibly the best thing I have ever seen.

I want it on a T-shirt.

[Dan The Chainsawman]

[Rteacher]

Thanks for those sentiments, but I really don't take them as viscious insults, and I don't think these people really had any bad intentions behind their statements. I think they were just indulging in some insult humor - which I frankly like to do myself - with folks I know can take it. I'd much rather that people check out my posts and and make joking insults than have them not check them out at all...(And the philosophy I'm trying to represent really is so deep that I can barely understand it myself - and I've been trying to follow it - mostly on my own - for over thirty years...)