2017 The Hare Krishna Sect Is In San Francisco -- Targeting Tourists Not Flower Children.
Friends, if you have met a Hare Krishna outreacher, you need to know that they are taught to lie to outsiders in order to recruit them.
A Hare Krishna outreach person will charm you and delight you, will be intelligent and lucid.
That person will not tell you the full history of the Hare Krishna movement.
He or she may not know that full history themselves -- because their own recruiters did not tell them, and once in the cult, they are kept too busy to do outside reading - or research.
Here is where you can learn what your ISKON recruiter will not tell you.
A former Hare Krishna wrote this -- the inside dope.
[surrealist.org]
Your delightful ISKON recruiter will not tell you the full history of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness.
In fact, the Hare Krishna recruiter regards it as his duty to Krishna to LIE to you if that gets you to become a devotee.
Women Children and Sex
This is what your charming smiling Krishna recruiter really thinks of you.
Here is an archive of information about the International Society of Krishna Consciousness.
[www.culteducation.com]
ISKON and drug smuggling
[www.culteducation.com]
ISKON and child abuse at Krishna temples and Krishna boarding schools
[www.culteducation.com]
[www.culteducation.com]
[www.culteducation.com]
[www.culteducation.com]
But, if you are an outsider, you are what they call a 'karmi' -- an inferior deluded creature trapped in karma.
You are either a potential recruit or, if you refuse, a demonic foe.
San Francisco's Haight Ashbury District has been a tourist spot for years.
Even more tourists are pouring into "The Haight" due to the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love.
For the past 3 to 4 months, Hare Krishnas have been on Haight Street handing
out free copies of the Bhagavad Gita --- with the Hare Krishna cult commentary on the text written Srila Prabhupada, the founder.
It is the First Amendment right of the Krishnas to do outreach. They come across as charming and friendly people. Being mean to them would make most of us feel as though we are kicking a puppy.
These New Model Hare Krishas do not look spaced out. They are well spoken. They are welcoming and charming. They are the kind of people who would make any business or cause look good.
Back to Haight Street, 2017. You are standing there chatting with your ISKON recruiter. He will be happy to let you take selfies with him so you can share all this on social media.
Put your encounter on social media and, without knowing it, you will be doing
free publicity for the Krishnas. Learn a bit about their real history before
you give them that publicity.
No. The ISKON sect is a tiny, very tiny sect within Hinduism. It is not even ancient. ISKON is a devotional, bhakti sect within Hinduism. The various Bhakti sects developed in medieval India, not ancient India.
ISKON is a subsect of the Gaudiya Vaishnava bhakti sect. The adi Guru (founding guru)of the Gauidya Vaisnavas was Chaitanya, born in Bengal, Western India in the 16th Century, a mere 400 years ago.
Friends, if you have met a Hare Krishna outreacher, you need to know that they are taught to lie to outsiders in order to recruit them.
A Hare Krishna outreach person will charm you and delight you, will be intelligent and lucid.
That person will not tell you the full history of the Hare Krishna movement.
He or she may not know that full history themselves -- because their own recruiters did not tell them, and once in the cult, they are kept too busy to do outside reading - or research.
Here is where you can learn what your ISKON recruiter will not tell you.
A former Hare Krishna wrote this -- the inside dope.
[surrealist.org]
Your delightful ISKON recruiter will not tell you the full history of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness.
In fact, the Hare Krishna recruiter regards it as his duty to Krishna to LIE to you if that gets you to become a devotee.
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I learned that service to Krishna trumps mundane morality and ethics—that ethics is, most fundamentally, whatever serves the mission (ethics based on any other motivation is mere sentimentality and mental speculation). To get one of our books or other products into the hands of a non-devotee, and to separate him or her from their money, one could say and do virtually anything. I learned that, despite appearances, such actions could not be called lying or cheating, because they represent the enactment of a higher law, meant for the true benefit of the donor.
Women Children and Sex
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In spite of a personal history of appreciating and respecting women, I learned that women are the enemies of spiritual life, not only because their very presence invokes lust, but because they themselves are of a lower, more sensual order of being. Women are, in fact, the very embodiment of Maya, the universal force of material illusion, and therefore must be covered ankle to neck.
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In weak moments, I learned that ample sensuality may be observed in the faces, hands and feet of young women, and in the shifting folds of their modest saris.
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I learned that for a person on the spiritual path, the worst possible thing he can do is to engage in illicit sex (i.e., sex for any purpose other than creating godly children within marriage). I learned that non-procreational sex displeases God and fatally undermines any hope of spiritual progress.
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I learned that my ex-girlfriends were bloodsuckers. Since, according to the guru, it takes forty drops of blood to produce one drop of semen, when my girlfriends had sex with me they were draining me of my vital energies. No matter how kind, beautiful or intelligent they might have seemed at the time, they were de facto vampires.
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I learned that no matter how good and decent a non-devotee may appear on the surface, if he engages in illicit sex he is little better than a monkey. Those who indulge their lust are sinful, dirty, and doomed to perpetual misery.
This is what your charming smiling Krishna recruiter really thinks of you.
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I learned that whatever admirable qualities a non-devotee may appear to have—however seemingly benign, benevolent or admirable—the mere fact that the person is not a devotee of Krishna renders him a sinner, to be avoided at all costs. Even our biological family and former friends were to be avoided as far as possible, lest we become contaminated or, alternatively, incinerated: to associate with non-devotees was, according to our scriptures, tantamount to entering "a cage of fire."
Here is an archive of information about the International Society of Krishna Consciousness.
[www.culteducation.com]
ISKON and drug smuggling
[www.culteducation.com]
ISKON and child abuse at Krishna temples and Krishna boarding schools
[www.culteducation.com]
[www.culteducation.com]
[www.culteducation.com]
[www.culteducation.com]
But, if you are an outsider, you are what they call a 'karmi' -- an inferior deluded creature trapped in karma.
You are either a potential recruit or, if you refuse, a demonic foe.
San Francisco's Haight Ashbury District has been a tourist spot for years.
Even more tourists are pouring into "The Haight" due to the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love.
For the past 3 to 4 months, Hare Krishnas have been on Haight Street handing
out free copies of the Bhagavad Gita --- with the Hare Krishna cult commentary on the text written Srila Prabhupada, the founder.
It is the First Amendment right of the Krishnas to do outreach. They come across as charming and friendly people. Being mean to them would make most of us feel as though we are kicking a puppy.
These New Model Hare Krishas do not look spaced out. They are well spoken. They are welcoming and charming. They are the kind of people who would make any business or cause look good.
Back to Haight Street, 2017. You are standing there chatting with your ISKON recruiter. He will be happy to let you take selfies with him so you can share all this on social media.
Put your encounter on social media and, without knowing it, you will be doing
free publicity for the Krishnas. Learn a bit about their real history before
you give them that publicity.
No. The ISKON sect is a tiny, very tiny sect within Hinduism. It is not even ancient. ISKON is a devotional, bhakti sect within Hinduism. The various Bhakti sects developed in medieval India, not ancient India.
ISKON is a subsect of the Gaudiya Vaishnava bhakti sect. The adi Guru (founding guru)of the Gauidya Vaisnavas was Chaitanya, born in Bengal, Western India in the 16th Century, a mere 400 years ago.
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Gaudiya Vaishnavism (also known as Chaitanya Vaishnavism and Hare Krishnas) is a Vaishnava religious movement founded by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534) in India in the 16th century. Caitanya Mahaprabhu rejuvenated the culture of Krsna bhakti. "Gaudiya" refers to the Gauda region (present day West Bengal & Bangladesh) and Vaishnavism meaning "the worship of Vishnu". Its philosophical basis is primarily that of the Bhagavad Gita and Bhagavata Purana, as well as other Puranic scriptures and Upanishads.