Kripamoya Das: I was once at a house conducting a baby’s ‘first grains’ ceremony. I asked if I could use a nearby glass-topped coffee table. The owner obliged but gently requested me: “Please be very careful when you place things on it, all four of the Beatles signed a contract on it years ago, and I wouldn’t like it to get scratched.”
He was an accountant connected with the music industr,y and for many years after that historic moment, to the owner, that table had been not simply any ordinary table; it was invested with a unique energy, having been in connection with famous persons. In Sanskrit this is known as tadiyanam, an item connected with someone of stature.
In the same manner, this painting:
Vishnu, The Keeper of The Cows, A Painting, Formerly the property of Srila Prabhupada, George Harrison, John Lennon, and Beatle âMr. Fixitâ Alistair Taylor.
The painting was commissioned by the founder of the Hare Krishna movement, Srila Prabhupada in 1967, it was created in Montreal, Canada, it held pride of place in various offices and buildings that Prabhupada occupied, in 1968, the movement dispatched a group of devotees to London, England, in an attempt to garner support from The Beatles, the gift they were carrying as they set out for London, was this very painting. On arrival in the UK the devotees set out for Apple where they quickly found financial and emotional support in the form of George Harrison, the painting was gifted to George and he took it home to âKinfaunsâ his bungalow in Esher, the painting was present at various concerts giving by the Raha Krishna Temple in late 1968/69, it then moved to Friar Park in Early 1970 where it was hung in George and Pattieâs private rooms, in mid-1970, John Lennon had made space available within the grounds of Tittenhurst Park for the devotees to establish a temple, this painting hung over the alter within the temple, when John decided to relocate to NYC in 1971 he called Alistair Taylor around for a final drink, John gifted the painting to Alistair. Complete with a letter from Alistair on âApple Wordsâ stationery and a photograph of the painting being held aloft at Tittenhurst Park, additional images of the painting within the quarters of Srila Prabhupada. A more recent copy of this painting can be seen at the Bhaktivedanta Manor Temple in Oxfordshire, England, the house was a gift from George Harrison to the ISKCON movement, there are significant structural and design differences between the modern tribute painting to the 1967 original.
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