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Boro Nut · 03-07-2002, 08:46 AM

Presumably you have to pay if you want the food brought to you on plates?

Boro Nut

hinduwoman · 03-09-2002, 05:13 PM

Well, if they are hot on following traditional Indian practice, they should serve food on banyan leaves.

oriecat · 04-03-2002, 07:00 AM

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Originally posted by jess:
anyone else remember the Opus comment (back when he was still a penguin who couldn't speak well) Prayer Pimples for Hairy Fishnuts?

Ah, love any excuse to go through my Bloom County books.

Opus: I beg your pardon?
Hare Krishna: I asked if you would make an offering to a spiritual pilgram.
Opus: Ah! You're a penguin, too?
HK: Pilgrim, my son.
Opus: Pilgrim.
HK: Yes! Of the Hare Krishnas.
Opus: Hairy Fishnuts.
HK: Hare Krishnas. You offering would go to our prayer temples.
Opus: Dimples?
HK: Prayer temples.
Opus: Pear dimples for Hairy Fishnuts!
HK: Just cough up some dough, Mac.

Bokonon · 04-03-2002, 04:43 PM

For what it's worth, I know an elderly Hare Krishna gentleman. He's very kind, very charitable, and very tolerant. The temple he goes to offers daily meals (dedicated to Krishna first) to anyone who wants to go. There's no praying, no preaching. A person walks around with a donation basket, but if one can't afford it, one doesn't have to pay. The homeless go frequently for the free, healthy meal.

He told me a story. I'm not sure if it's true or not. The founder of Hare Krishna (Sri Something, I forget), looked outside the temple window and saw all the starving people. That day, he told the Temple leadership that no one within site of any Hare Krishna temple would go hungry. That's why the temples offer a system I described above.

Ron Singh · 04-04-2002, 01:34 PM

Sikhs also have a free kitchen for anyone who would like to eat for free in their temples.

JohnR · 04-07-2002, 03:54 PM

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There have been a couple of other scandals involving, not ISKCON per se, but other psuedo-Hindu movements in the US. In the 1980s Bhaghwan Rajneesh was busted for tax evasion and corruption, and was extradited back to India; a few years ago some other group tried to poison the salad bars at fast-food chains in a small town (Texas? I can't remember) in order to effect the outcome of a local election. All in all, the usual mix of greed, corruption, and perversity.
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It was the followers of the Bhaghwan Rajneesh thet tried to poison (salmonella) a salad bar in a resturant in Biggs OR. They were trying to keep people home for the Wasco County elections so they could elect their own to county offices.

roshan · 04-19-2002, 07:01 AM

hare krishnas are hindus in teaching. their philosophy is the same as the achintya bhedabheda school of vedanta which was taught by chaitanya around 1400 ce.

however, in attitude, they really arent very hindu. for one thing, they try too hard to convert others. hindus do not believe in proselityzing and converting.

[ April 19, 2002: Message edited by: roshan ]

roshan · 04-19-2002, 07:18 AM

another thing that is unhindu about the hare krishnas is that they take everything in the hindu texts to be 100% literal, even though a lot of it is symbolic.

karthik · 04-19-2002, 01:19 PM

I would consider then to be a benign cult whose members jump up in the air while making some excellent food.

hinduwoman · 04-20-2002, 06:29 PM

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Originally posted by karthik:
I would consider then to be a benign cult whose members jump up in the air while making some excellent food.

Can American converts really make good Indian food? Don't think so.

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roshan Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: philippines Posts: 72	hare krishnas are hindus in teaching. their philosophy is the same as the achintya bhedabheda school of vedanta which was taught by chaitanya around 1400 ce. however, in attitude, they really arent very hindu. for one thing, they try too hard to convert others. hindus do not believe in proselityzing and converting. [ April 19, 2002: Message edited by: roshan ]</p>

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Boro Nut Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Middlesbrough, England Posts: 3,909	Presumably you have to pay if you want the food brought to you on plates? Boro Nut

03-09-2002, 05:13 PM	#22
hinduwoman Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: India Posts: 6,977	Well, if they are hot on following traditional Indian practice, they should serve food on banyan leaves.

04-03-2002, 04:43 PM	#24
Bokonon Regular Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Left of the Mississippi Posts: 138	For what it's worth, I know an elderly Hare Krishna gentleman. He's very kind, very charitable, and very tolerant. The temple he goes to offers daily meals (dedicated to Krishna first) to anyone who wants to go. There's no praying, no preaching. A person walks around with a donation basket, but if one can't afford it, one doesn't have to pay. The homeless go frequently for the free, healthy meal. He told me a story. I'm not sure if it's true or not. The founder of Hare Krishna (Sri Something, I forget), looked outside the temple window and saw all the starving people. That day, he told the Temple leadership that no one within site of any Hare Krishna temple would go hungry. That's why the temples offer a system I described above.

04-04-2002, 01:34 PM	#25
Ron Singh Regular Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Fremont, CA Posts: 163	Sikhs also have a free kitchen for anyone who would like to eat for free in their temples.

04-19-2002, 07:18 AM	#28
roshan Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: philippines Posts: 72	another thing that is unhindu about the hare krishnas is that they take everything in the hindu texts to be 100% literal, even though a lot of it is symbolic.

04-19-2002, 01:19 PM	#29
karthik Regular Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 277	I would consider then to be a benign cult whose members jump up in the air while making some excellent food.

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