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Hash Bash \u2018Bash Crash\u2019 2018 (Album with photos)
\nDeva Madhava das: Some time ago Grace started introducing herself as Gray because she felt Grace was too much to live up to. When she was younger she felt the world was an opportunity to connect with others, there was good inside all people, and that her purpose was to help everyone feel loved and cared for. Lately though, feelings of anger were coming up inside her, seemingly out of nowhere. She was regularly feeling scared and isolated from both strangers and familiar relationships and didn\u2019t know why. But it occurred to her that maybe part of the problem was with herself, that she\u2019d wrongly given up on living for goodness always just because it became a little tough after childhood. So just recently she started introducing herself again as Grace.. like she\u2019d done with me, and had written a series of Philosophical essays on her own theory of the best lifestyle.. Radical Gentleness. She\u2019d gotten a Bhagavad-Gita As It Is a few years ago and appreciated it as profound book; though she couldn\u2019t relate how to apply it in her own life. She was relieved and grateful, after an hour of dancing in the Harinama, to get a bottle of water and a Science of Self Realization.. which is \u201ctopically organized and easier to relate to than the Gita.\u201d <\/p>\n
Grace is the best kind of person we could hope to meet at a Hash Bash in 2018. Far from the energized rally it used to be.. with Marijuana practically legal now and the party scene thats developed over the years.. the event, like most modern efforts, has traded in its nobler aspects for the typically crass, indulgent fluffiness of today\u2019s social justice scene. Most thoughtful people in the Detroit area keep Hash Bash on their calendar only to remind themselves to avoid Ann Arbor that day. But we look forward to the opportunity each year. As HG Madhavanada Prabhu, who got our consciousness primed for maximum impact all week with his wonderful katha, shared after his blazing kirtan.. \u201cSome devotees were cautioning me ‘maybe its not so good this Hash Bash program.. we don\u2019t want folks to affiliate us with this kind of crowd.\u2019 But I can see they\u2019re wrong, we have to be here.. look at all these people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Its not 1973 anymore, and that\u2019s a good thing. Krishna Consciousness is for more, and has much more to offer, than merely what burnouts and hapless hippies can generally appreciate and accept. But that doesn\u2019t mean those people shouldn\u2019t get their chance.. That doesn\u2019t mean a classic Hare Krishna street corner carnival doesn\u2019t have its place in 2018. 6 Hours of Harinama, 2,000 servings of halva, 100+ big books and the thousands of people who heard the Holy Name last Saturday are proof \u201cOld is Gold\u201d as Madhavananda Prabhu puts it. Gauranga! <\/p>\n
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