The members` dress and shaved heads are signs of humility.ĭutt became a Krishna devotee because he liked the concept of Karma in Hindu religion that says that the acts of a man in his previous life causes the afflictions that he faces in another reincarnation. The personal expansion are the many different incarnations of God, and the separated expansions are the many living beings such as ourselves. There are His personal expansiona and His separated expansions.
Each and every one of us is part and parcel of Krishna or God, He has got many expansions. Distribution of literature on Krishna consciousness is also a religious duty. Krishna consciousness is the orignal natural energy of every single living being. Every devotee is required to do these chantings sometimes loud in accompaniment of drums and sometimes slowly while moving their wooden beads. The beating of a drum and chanting of Hare Krishna is a part of their preaching. In the United States, the Krishna devotees are better known as people who beat drums at street corners and try to pass out literature to passengers at airports.
These chantings, they believe, will lead them to spiritual enlightment and mukti, or salvation. Krishna devotees also believe that the present age is a ''kalyug,'' or the age of quarrel and hypocrisy, and one of their earlier gurus, Sri Caitanya, a 15th Century Hindu priest, was sent to teach the chant or mantra of Hare Krishna to the people of kalyug. However, these beliefs have made them very unpopular in India where some don`t even recognize them as fellow Hindus. Shekhar`s parents are traditional Brahmins, but he became a Krishna devotee when he was 11 years old.
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