Guest guest Posted September 6, 2003 Report Posted September 6, 2003 are part of this movement. It would be helpful if you presented stats. Thanx in advance Quote
Govindaram Posted September 7, 2003 Report Posted September 7, 2003 from a Buddist point of view just 1. /images/graemlins/smirk.gif Quote
I_love_krishna_ Posted September 7, 2003 Report Posted September 7, 2003 None! It is all an illusion, You don't exist! Get rid of that vasana and realize that you do not exist and you are nothing but bunch of karma. Quote
Govindaram Posted September 7, 2003 Report Posted September 7, 2003 In the Absolute sense just 2. Krsna and Living Entity. ? Quote
Guest guest Posted September 7, 2003 Report Posted September 7, 2003 how will it help you? those in the movement loose such distinctions. is not not something good for unity and peace? jai sri krishna! -madhav Quote
Guest guest Posted September 8, 2003 Report Posted September 8, 2003 I ask a simple question and you give me zen-like answers. I want to know because I am trying to analyze what it is in ISKCON that attracts people from various professions, age, descent etc. I simply would like to know whether there are westerners here, and if there are, why they are so interested in ISKCON. Does it have something to do with their rebellious nature? Or do they simply hate Christianity? Is it because western culture has made them lonley and so they are looking for company? Or is it spiritual? These and many other questions need to be answered, so I thought I could find out from this web portal. Instead, I get heaps of lectures on Absolute Reality, or relative reality or relative Absolute or whatever! Quote
stonehearted Posted September 8, 2003 Report Posted September 8, 2003 The answer is a lot. Many thousands all around the world. When I joined ISKCON in early 1970, there were a couple of hundred, but it has grown incredibly over the decades. This is hard to count because ISKCON and the other Gaudiya vaishnava missions don't have the rigid form we saw in the '70s. Since this is a sociological question, it may be well to ask a sociologist who studies ISKCON. Perhaps one of the best known is Prof. Burke Rochford at Middlebury College in Vermont. His email address is rochford@middlebury.edu Quote
Guest guest Posted September 10, 2003 Report Posted September 10, 2003 the name krishna means all attractive. if some one knows him thru a pur devotee then he/she would fall in love with krishna. in pandharpur, india there is a temple of krishna known as pandharinath. a great devotee has said/advised others this: "do not take darshan of pandharinata. if you do, you will loose the world and fall in love with him for ever." jai sri krishna! -madhav Quote
livingentity Posted September 10, 2003 Report Posted September 10, 2003 a bzillion... /images/graemlins/grin.gif > > > > > > who knows? There are devotees that have never entered a temple and are basically unknown. Who knows! There is no real way of ever knowing unless the census takers add that question to their forms. "Excuse me mam, how many in your household? How many practice Krishna Consciousness? Of these followers, how many chant 16 rounds a day?" Quote
Guest guest Posted September 10, 2003 Report Posted September 10, 2003 what attracts all of us is the beautiful image of Sri Krishna and His beloved devotees Quote
livingentity Posted September 10, 2003 Report Posted September 10, 2003 from a Buddist point of view just 1. Yes, grasshopper! What is the sound of one devotee chanting?If one devotee chants in the woods and no one else is around - does he make a sound? Quote
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