{"id":47381,"date":"2017-06-17T09:51:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T07:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/161921220026"},"modified":"2017-06-17T09:51:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T07:51:24","slug":"how-the-hare-krishna-movement-started-51-years-ago-in-the-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=47381","title":{"rendered":"How the Hare Krishna Movement Started 51 Years Ago in the East…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How the Hare Krishna Movement Started 51 Years Ago in the East Village.
\nKasper Van Laarhoven (for bedfordandbowery.com): This Friday, June 16, Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It will premiere at Village East Cinema. The documentary tells the story of Srila Prabhupada, a disheveled 70-year-old Hindu who boarded a freighter to the U.S. in August 1965 with little more than three self-translated religious texts and instructions from his guru to \u201coffer spiritual wisdom to the people of the world.\u201d
\nPrabhupada \u2013 back then still called Bhaktivedanta Swami \u2013 struggled through life on New York City\u2019s rough \u201cbum Bowery\u201d until one of his early admirers found him a place one avenue over. It was here, in a tiny storefront at 26 Second Avenue, that Prabhupada established what would become the very first Krishna Consciousness temple outside of India.
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How the Hare Krishna Movement Started 51 Years Ago in the East Village.
\nKasper Van Laarhoven (for bedfordandbowery.com): This Friday, June 16, Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It will premiere at Village East Cinema. The documentary tells the story of Srila Prabhupada, a disheveled 70-year-old Hindu who boarded a freighter to the U.S. in August 1965 with little more than three self-translated religious texts and instructions from his guru to “offer spiritual wisdom to the people of the world.”
\nPrabhupada – back then still called Bhaktivedanta Swami – struggled through life on New York City’s rough “bum Bowery” until one of his early admirers found him a place one avenue over. It was here, in a tiny storefront at 26 Second Avenue, that Prabhupada established what would become the very first Krishna Consciousness temple outside of India.
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