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Upton Park, London 🇬🇧
9th August, 2018
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Upton Park, London 🇬🇧
9th August, 2018
We started with nothing, living in a squat. Sripad BV Vana Maharaj visited us when he was in London.
~ Kamala Devi Dasi
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Upton Park, London 🇬🇧
9th August, 2018
Hare Krishna devotee from India has never seen himself in photos and asked to view his image on the camera LCD screen.
CBD, Sydney, Australia (Wednesday 23 December 2015)
Mari and I trekked all the way across downtown Vancouver to check out the annual Hare Krishna festival taking place at Second Beach in Stanley Park. This colourful balloon arch was at the entrance to the festival area. August 9, 2009.
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), better known as the Hare Krishna Movement was founded by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1966 in New York City, eleven years before he died at the age of 81.
The popular nickname of Hare Krishnas for devotees of this movement comes from the Maha Mantra that devotees sing aloud or chant quietly. This mantra contains the names of God Krishna and Rama. Devotees believe that the sound vibration created by repeating these names of God gradually revives a state of pure God-consciousness, or Krishna consciousness.
The Hare Krishna mantra appears in a number of famous songs, most notably the late George Harrison's My Sweet Lord.........Wikipedia
Australia Day, The Rocks, Sydney, Australia (Tuesday 26 Jan 2010 @ 12:01 pm)
An innocent pair of grass blades swaying about in the wind in an innocent Bangalorean village called Lakshmipura in Bangalore district
New Vrindaban, West Virginia
October 17, 2014
Autumn leaves at their dazzling yellow peak. Backroads of West Virginia, foothills of the mountains. Appalachia. Ascending on a steep, curving, packed-gravel road, past fracking camps and vistas of marble-sized pumpkins of the fields below...
Then, out of the forest, the sky opens up over New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community at the peak of a mountain. A small lake adorned by a swan boat and with two huge statues upon the shore. Peacocks everywhere. And a cow pasture. A vegetarian restaurant.
A temple with incense and a family kneeling and bowed on prayer mats, devoting to deities set in a mulitude of lavish, gilded niches.
The centerpiece of New Vrindaban is the Palace of Gold, built by disciples as the home of Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. After his passing in 1977, it became a memorial shrine to him - many of its amenities, like the kitchen, study, and bathroom, are maintained in their original form - some with wax statues depicting his likeness in various states of divine activity.
No photography is allowed in the Palace - but the Indian style architecture within is extravagant beyond belief, considering what part of the world it is in. It is especially jarring considering the gap between the vast expense of materials, and the free labor performed by resident disciples who have eschewed worldly possessions. The explanation of the tour guide was that all is transitory in this world, and so such adornment was irrelevant beyond creative pursuit.
New Vrindaban has had a checkered history filled with the general controversies associated with the Krishna Consciousness movement, and the darker 1980's allegations of child abuse and murder conspiracy against an expelled guru.
It would take more than one visit to begin to understand the tangle of severe spirituality, non-chalant worldliness, social isolation, and natural beauty that exist here.
New Vrindaban, West Virginia
October 17, 2014
Autumn leaves at their dazzling yellow peak. Backroads of West Virginia, foothills of the mountains. Appalachia. Ascending on a steep, curving, packed-gravel road, past fracking camps and vistas of marble-sized pumpkins of the fields below...
Then, out of the forest, the sky opens up over New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community at the peak of a mountain. A small lake adorned by a swan boat and with two huge statues upon the shore. Peacocks everywhere. And a cow pasture. A vegetarian restaurant.
A temple with incense and a family kneeling and bowed on prayer mats, devoting to deities set in a mulitude of lavish, gilded niches.
The centerpiece of New Vrindaban is the Palace of Gold, built by disciples as the home of Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. After his passing in 1977, it became a memorial shrine to him - many of its amenities, like the kitchen, study, and bathroom, are maintained in their original form - some with wax statues depicting his likeness in various states of divine activity.
No photography is allowed in the Palace - but the Indian style architecture within is extravagant beyond belief, considering what part of the world it is in. It is especially jarring considering the gap between the vast expense of materials, and the free labor performed by resident disciples who have eschewed worldly possessions. The explanation of the tour guide was that all is transitory in this world, and so such adornment was irrelevant beyond creative pursuit.
New Vrindaban has had a checkered history filled with the general controversies associated with the Krishna Consciousness movement, and the darker 1980's allegations of child abuse and murder conspiracy against an expelled guru.
It would take more than one visit to begin to understand the tangle of severe spirituality, non-chalant worldliness, social isolation, and natural beauty that exist here.
New Vrindaban, West Virginia
October 17, 2014
Autumn leaves at their dazzling yellow peak. Backroads of West Virginia, foothills of the mountains. Appalachia. Ascending on a steep, curving, packed-gravel road, past fracking camps and vistas of marble-sized pumpkins of the fields below...
Then, out of the forest, the sky opens up over New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community at the peak of a mountain. A small lake adorned by a swan boat and with two huge statues upon the shore. Peacocks everywhere. And a cow pasture. A vegetarian restaurant.
A temple with incense and a family kneeling and bowed on prayer mats, devoting to deities set in a mulitude of lavish, gilded niches.
The centerpiece of New Vrindaban is the Palace of Gold, built by disciples as the home of Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. After his passing in 1977, it became a memorial shrine to him - many of its amenities, like the kitchen, study, and bathroom, are maintained in their original form - some with wax statues depicting his likeness in various states of divine activity.
No photography is allowed in the Palace - but the Indian style architecture within is extravagant beyond belief, considering what part of the world it is in. It is especially jarring considering the gap between the vast expense of materials, and the free labor performed by resident disciples who have eschewed worldly possessions. The explanation of the tour guide was that all is transitory in this world, and so such adornment was irrelevant beyond creative pursuit.
New Vrindaban has had a checkered history filled with the general controversies associated with the Krishna Consciousness movement, and the darker 1980's allegations of child abuse and murder conspiracy against an expelled guru.
It would take more than one visit to begin to understand the tangle of severe spirituality, non-chalant worldliness, social isolation, and natural beauty that exist here.
New Vrindaban, West Virginia
October 17, 2014
Autumn leaves at their dazzling yellow peak. Backroads of West Virginia, foothills of the mountains. Appalachia. Ascending on a steep, curving, packed-gravel road, past fracking camps and vistas of marble-sized pumpkins of the fields below...
Then, out of the forest, the sky opens up over New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community at the peak of a mountain. A small lake adorned by a swan boat and with two huge statues upon the shore. Peacocks everywhere. And a cow pasture. A vegetarian restaurant.
A temple with incense and a family kneeling and bowed on prayer mats, devoting to deities set in a mulitude of lavish, gilded niches.
The centerpiece of New Vrindaban is the Palace of Gold, built by disciples as the home of Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. After his passing in 1977, it became a memorial shrine to him - many of its amenities, like the kitchen, study, and bathroom, are maintained in their original form - some with wax statues depicting his likeness in various states of divine activity.
No photography is allowed in the Palace - but the Indian style architecture within is extravagant beyond belief, considering what part of the world it is in. It is especially jarring considering the gap between the vast expense of materials, and the free labor performed by resident disciples who have eschewed worldly possessions. The explanation of the tour guide was that all is transitory in this world, and so such adornment was irrelevant beyond creative pursuit.
New Vrindaban has had a checkered history filled with the general controversies associated with the Krishna Consciousness movement, and the darker 1980's allegations of child abuse and murder conspiracy against an expelled guru.
It would take more than one visit to begin to understand the tangle of severe spirituality, non-chalant worldliness, social isolation, and natural beauty that exist here.
ISKCON ( Krishna Consciousness or popularly known as Hare Krishna movement ) leaders riding to the main ghat to take the royal bath. I believe that it's a "puppet" with the face of ISKCON founder Swami Prabhupada, not a real person, that is sitting in the middle
New Vrindaban, West Virginia
October 17, 2014
Autumn leaves at their dazzling yellow peak. Backroads of West Virginia, foothills of the mountains. Appalachia. Ascending on a steep, curving, packed-gravel road, past fracking camps and vistas of marble-sized pumpkins of the fields below...
Then, out of the forest, the sky opens up over New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community at the peak of a mountain. A small lake adorned by a swan boat and with two huge statues upon the shore. Peacocks everywhere. And a cow pasture. A vegetarian restaurant.
A temple with incense and a family kneeling and bowed on prayer mats, devoting to deities set in a mulitude of lavish, gilded niches.
The centerpiece of New Vrindaban is the Palace of Gold, built by disciples as the home of Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. After his passing in 1977, it became a memorial shrine to him - many of its amenities, like the kitchen, study, and bathroom, are maintained in their original form - some with wax statues depicting his likeness in various states of divine activity.
No photography is allowed in the Palace - but the Indian style architecture within is extravagant beyond belief, considering what part of the world it is in. It is especially jarring considering the gap between the vast expense of materials, and the free labor performed by resident disciples who have eschewed worldly possessions. The explanation of the tour guide was that all is transitory in this world, and so such adornment was irrelevant beyond creative pursuit.
New Vrindaban has had a checkered history filled with the general controversies associated with the Krishna Consciousness movement, and the darker 1980's allegations of child abuse and murder conspiracy against an expelled guru.
It would take more than one visit to begin to understand the tangle of severe spirituality, non-chalant worldliness, social isolation, and natural beauty that exist here.
New Vrindaban, West Virginia
October 17, 2014
Autumn leaves at their dazzling yellow peak. Backroads of West Virginia, foothills of the mountains. Appalachia. Ascending on a steep, curving, packed-gravel road, past fracking camps and vistas of marble-sized pumpkins of the fields below...
Then, out of the forest, the sky opens up over New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community at the peak of a mountain. A small lake adorned by a swan boat and with two huge statues upon the shore. Peacocks everywhere. And a cow pasture. A vegetarian restaurant.
A temple with incense and a family kneeling and bowed on prayer mats, devoting to deities set in a mulitude of lavish, gilded niches.
The centerpiece of New Vrindaban is the Palace of Gold, built by disciples as the home of Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. After his passing in 1977, it became a memorial shrine to him - many of its amenities, like the kitchen, study, and bathroom, are maintained in their original form - some with wax statues depicting his likeness in various states of divine activity.
No photography is allowed in the Palace - but the Indian style architecture within is extravagant beyond belief, considering what part of the world it is in. It is especially jarring considering the gap between the vast expense of materials, and the free labor performed by resident disciples who have eschewed worldly possessions. The explanation of the tour guide was that all is transitory in this world, and so such adornment was irrelevant beyond creative pursuit.
New Vrindaban has had a checkered history filled with the general controversies associated with the Krishna Consciousness movement, and the darker 1980's allegations of child abuse and murder conspiracy against an expelled guru.
It would take more than one visit to begin to understand the tangle of severe spirituality, non-chalant worldliness, social isolation, and natural beauty that exist here.
This is a mountain in #turkey besides the black sea. Taken while flying over the country on my way to #bangalore (BLR) from #frankfurt (FRA) on #lufthansa flight LH754
New Vrindaban, West Virginia
October 17, 2014
Autumn leaves at their dazzling yellow peak. Backroads of West Virginia, foothills of the mountains. Appalachia. Ascending on a steep, curving, packed-gravel road, past fracking camps and vistas of marble-sized pumpkins of the fields below...
Then, out of the forest, the sky opens up over New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community at the peak of a mountain. A small lake adorned by a swan boat and with two huge statues upon the shore. Peacocks everywhere. And a cow pasture. A vegetarian restaurant.
A temple with incense and a family kneeling and bowed on prayer mats, devoting to deities set in a mulitude of lavish, gilded niches.
The centerpiece of New Vrindaban is the Palace of Gold, built by disciples as the home of Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. After his passing in 1977, it became a memorial shrine to him - many of its amenities, like the kitchen, study, and bathroom, are maintained in their original form - some with wax statues depicting his likeness in various states of divine activity.
No photography is allowed in the Palace - but the Indian style architecture within is extravagant beyond belief, considering what part of the world it is in. It is especially jarring considering the gap between the vast expense of materials, and the free labor performed by resident disciples who have eschewed worldly possessions. The explanation of the tour guide was that all is transitory in this world, and so such adornment was irrelevant beyond creative pursuit.
New Vrindaban has had a checkered history filled with the general controversies associated with the Krishna Consciousness movement, and the darker 1980's allegations of child abuse and murder conspiracy against an expelled guru.
It would take more than one visit to begin to understand the tangle of severe spirituality, non-chalant worldliness, social isolation, and natural beauty that exist here.
This is a sight of a mountains in #turkey besides the black sea. Taken while flying over the country on my way to #bangalore (BLR) from #frankfurt (FRA) on #lufthansa flight LH754
New Vrindaban, West Virginia
October 17, 2014
Autumn leaves at their dazzling yellow peak. Backroads of West Virginia, foothills of the mountains. Appalachia. Ascending on a steep, curving, packed-gravel road, past fracking camps and vistas of marble-sized pumpkins of the fields below...
Then, out of the forest, the sky opens up over New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community at the peak of a mountain. A small lake adorned by a swan boat and with two huge statues upon the shore. Peacocks everywhere. And a cow pasture. A vegetarian restaurant.
A temple with incense and a family kneeling and bowed on prayer mats, devoting to deities set in a mulitude of lavish, gilded niches.
The centerpiece of New Vrindaban is the Palace of Gold, built by disciples as the home of Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. After his passing in 1977, it became a memorial shrine to him - many of its amenities, like the kitchen, study, and bathroom, are maintained in their original form - some with wax statues depicting his likeness in various states of divine activity.
No photography is allowed in the Palace - but the Indian style architecture within is extravagant beyond belief, considering what part of the world it is in. It is especially jarring considering the gap between the vast expense of materials, and the free labor performed by resident disciples who have eschewed worldly possessions. The explanation of the tour guide was that all is transitory in this world, and so such adornment was irrelevant beyond creative pursuit.
New Vrindaban has had a checkered history filled with the general controversies associated with the Krishna Consciousness movement, and the darker 1980's allegations of child abuse and murder conspiracy against an expelled guru.
It would take more than one visit to begin to understand the tangle of severe spirituality, non-chalant worldliness, social isolation, and natural beauty that exist here.
New Vrindaban, West Virginia
October 17, 2014
Autumn leaves at their dazzling yellow peak. Backroads of West Virginia, foothills of the mountains. Appalachia. Ascending on a steep, curving, packed-gravel road, past fracking camps and vistas of marble-sized pumpkins of the fields below...
Then, out of the forest, the sky opens up over New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community at the peak of a mountain. A small lake adorned by a swan boat and with two huge statues upon the shore. Peacocks everywhere. And a cow pasture. A vegetarian restaurant.
A temple with incense and a family kneeling and bowed on prayer mats, devoting to deities set in a mulitude of lavish, gilded niches.
The centerpiece of New Vrindaban is the Palace of Gold, built by disciples as the home of Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. After his passing in 1977, it became a memorial shrine to him - many of its amenities, like the kitchen, study, and bathroom, are maintained in their original form - some with wax statues depicting his likeness in various states of divine activity.
No photography is allowed in the Palace - but the Indian style architecture within is extravagant beyond belief, considering what part of the world it is in. It is especially jarring considering the gap between the vast expense of materials, and the free labor performed by resident disciples who have eschewed worldly possessions. The explanation of the tour guide was that all is transitory in this world, and so such adornment was irrelevant beyond creative pursuit.
New Vrindaban has had a checkered history filled with the general controversies associated with the Krishna Consciousness movement, and the darker 1980's allegations of child abuse and murder conspiracy against an expelled guru.
It would take more than one visit to begin to understand the tangle of severe spirituality, non-chalant worldliness, social isolation, and natural beauty that exist here.
This is a mountain in #turkey besides the black sea. Taken while flying over the country on my way to #bangalore (BLR) from #frankfurt (FRA) on #lufthansa flight LH754
New Vrindaban, West Virginia
October 17, 2014
Autumn leaves at their dazzling yellow peak. Backroads of West Virginia, foothills of the mountains. Appalachia. Ascending on a steep, curving, packed-gravel road, past fracking camps and vistas of marble-sized pumpkins of the fields below...
Then, out of the forest, the sky opens up over New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community at the peak of a mountain. A small lake adorned by a swan boat and with two huge statues upon the shore. Peacocks everywhere. And a cow pasture. A vegetarian restaurant.
A temple with incense and a family kneeling and bowed on prayer mats, devoting to deities set in a mulitude of lavish, gilded niches.
The centerpiece of New Vrindaban is the Palace of Gold, built by disciples as the home of Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. After his passing in 1977, it became a memorial shrine to him - many of its amenities, like the kitchen, study, and bathroom, are maintained in their original form - some with wax statues depicting his likeness in various states of divine activity.
No photography is allowed in the Palace - but the Indian style architecture within is extravagant beyond belief, considering what part of the world it is in. It is especially jarring considering the gap between the vast expense of materials, and the free labor performed by resident disciples who have eschewed worldly possessions. The explanation of the tour guide was that all is transitory in this world, and so such adornment was irrelevant beyond creative pursuit.
New Vrindaban has had a checkered history filled with the general controversies associated with the Krishna Consciousness movement, and the darker 1980's allegations of child abuse and murder conspiracy against an expelled guru.
It would take more than one visit to begin to understand the tangle of severe spirituality, non-chalant worldliness, social isolation, and natural beauty that exist here.
A sparrow caught on a fence in my father-in-law's farm. Using the Panasonic 45-200mm telephoto lens
Location is in an innocent village called #Lakshmipura found in the rural parts of #Bangalore district
This is the rock carvings on the temple walls of a cave temple in Bangalore also known as Bull Temple. The temple is in a natural cave and the temple/cave walls have these epic stories carved illustrating parts of Krishna Avatar
While walking on my father-in-laws farmlands, I spotted this bird with food in its mouth on a wall. The Bokeh behind forming the shape of a bird with spread-out wings was quite unexpected and also beautiful.
Taken in the rural bangalore district little village called Lakshmipura
New Vrindaban, West Virginia
October 17, 2014
Autumn leaves at their dazzling yellow peak. Backroads of West Virginia, foothills of the mountains. Appalachia. Ascending on a steep, curving, packed-gravel road, past fracking camps and vistas of marble-sized pumpkins of the fields below...
Then, out of the forest, the sky opens up over New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community at the peak of a mountain. A small lake adorned by a swan boat and with two huge statues upon the shore. Peacocks everywhere. And a cow pasture. A vegetarian restaurant.
A temple with incense and a family kneeling and bowed on prayer mats, devoting to deities set in a mulitude of lavish, gilded niches.
The centerpiece of New Vrindaban is the Palace of Gold, built by disciples as the home of Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. After his passing in 1977, it became a memorial shrine to him - many of its amenities, like the kitchen, study, and bathroom, are maintained in their original form - some with wax statues depicting his likeness in various states of divine activity.
No photography is allowed in the Palace - but the Indian style architecture within is extravagant beyond belief, considering what part of the world it is in. It is especially jarring considering the gap between the vast expense of materials, and the free labor performed by resident disciples who have eschewed worldly possessions. The explanation of the tour guide was that all is transitory in this world, and so such adornment was irrelevant beyond creative pursuit.
New Vrindaban has had a checkered history filled with the general controversies associated with the Krishna Consciousness movement, and the darker 1980's allegations of child abuse and murder conspiracy against an expelled guru.
It would take more than one visit to begin to understand the tangle of severe spirituality, non-chalant worldliness, social isolation, and natural beauty that exist here.