Religion Series Hare Krishnas Part Two
Here is part two of my little study I guess you could call it on Hare Krishnas. This post will mainly focus on what the group uses on their website to explain their religion. Such as some of their practices, a little history and so on. The website for future reference or just in case you wanna check it out during this post is www.harekrishna.com All writing in italics is what I took directly from the website.
I will start first off with a page on their website entitled What is Hare Krishna?
What is Hare Krishna?
This page is a little explaination of what their basic philosophy is.
Krishna is a name of the supreme. It means "all-attractive" ;. Anything that might attract you has its source in the Supreme. Therefore the Supreme is also known as Rama (rhymes with "drama"). "Rama" means "the highest of eternmal pleasure".
It goes on to say...
All of us are pleasure-seeking creatures. So you can say that directly or indirectly we are all seeking Krishna. Chanting Hare Krishna is a way of seeking krishna directly.
Im going to skip a little bit and go to...
...But when we place ourselves in harmony with krishna and krishna's energy, we return to our natural, pure state of counsciousness. This is what we call "Krishna consciousness."
One thing I negleted to mention earlier is that another name for this group is iskcon. International Society for Krishna Conciousness
Krishna consciousness is not something impsed on them mind...Chanting Hare Krishna brings out that natural, pure state of mind...
Krishna and His energy are fulle present in the sound of the mantra...
The chant is
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna ; Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishnas believe in reincarnation. We go from body to body higher in bodies and lower. We can escape eventually but only through good works and meditation.
For history I think it would be best to just go to the website. Next post I will give some websites that are outside of the organization that give more indepth history and beliefs.
The Hare Krishnas follow four main rules those rules are:
No gambling
No intoxicants (this includes coffee tea and ciggarettes)
No meat-eating (yes this means ALL meats fish chicken, everything)
No illicit sex (sex is only allowed within marriage and even then only to procreate)
That is all for this post. For this religion I will be posting 1 or 2 times more.
Any thoughts?