Religion Series Hare Krishnas Part One

What I decided to do for this post was tell you a little about my personal experience with this group. I once went to one of their "love feasts" in vancouver. I went with about 10 friends of mine. At the time I was a christian (I am not a christian anymore) and we were going as a little bit of an experience and also frankly some of us were going to "plant seeds" Meaning to try and plant thoughts in their minds so they would question what they were following.

So when we got there a few went straight to a question tent. Some went to talk to some young people and others just walked around for a bit. I decided to just walk around for a bit. We observed all the tents they had on various things. They had many tents with info about their religion and things like that. They had a food tent with of course all vegetarian food. They had a tent where a bunch of them were chanting or you could call it singing I suppose and worshipping an idol of some sort. For a while I was transfixed on the chanting. I was just so pulled towards it. Probably because of the repetitevness of the chant. Eventually I snapped out of it and didn't get involved in the actual chanting. I'm glad I didn't. I don't think all my christian friends would have allowed it anyways.

 After walking around for a while I headed over to the question tent. I just couldent resist a good debate. A few friends of mine were already there so I decided to just sit down and eventually join in if I felt I had a particular point to well point out. The conversation was fascinating. Hare Krishnas will not deny jesus' deity. They believe he was alive and all that jazz. But they also believe in the other deities of religions and give them respect aswell. There main one is of course krishna. So the problem with trying to debate these people is that they acknowledge jesus but don't believe as christians do. There was a myriad of conversation while I was there on varying things. From jesus to reincarnation to our souls.

When we left I found out that one of the people who I was partly conversing with was one of the leaders with a high position in the group. No wonder he was dressed differently I thought. And no wonder I often felt compelled to agree with him. But I held my own pretty well without insulting. So my experience was a little odd at times but overall alright. I would like to go to one of these deals again but I just don't have the transportation to make it out to one right now. The one I went to was about 2 1/2 years ago by the way.

Soon I'll post a bit more about this group and what they believe and practice.