Mystic Yogi Hridayananda das Goswami chants and drums before delivering his nightly lecture
concerning yoga. A devotee plays the harmonium. The Hare Krisna people are meeting every night
this week for chanting and listening. ph0'° by Lmnet Me»erS
Krishna people on
campus this week to speak
By JOYCE BOLES
Of the Emerald
Representatives of the In
ternational Society for Krishna
Consciousness, commonly known
as Hare Krishna people, are on
campus this week. They’re the
guys with the saffron robes, bald
heads, bells, drums, and chan
Mystic Yogi Hridayananda das
Geswami is delivering a series of
programs entitled “The Ecstasy
of Yoga” every night this week at
7 pm. in 207 Chapman. Swami
Hridayananda is a leader in the
movement founded in 1966 by His
Divine Grace A.C. Bhakti vedanta
Swami Prabhupada, a com
pletely realized Spiritual Master
from India.
About 20 people attended the
urst lecture Monday evening.
Swami Hridayananda, ac
c°mpanied by six Krishna
movement devotees, began the
evening with about 25 minutes of
chanting. The chant was in 4-4
me increasing in tempo and
ccompanieo by rhythmic
waymg, drumming, the music of
harmonium imported from
ucutta, rhythmic hand
ling, foot movements, bells,
a»d incense
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abandoned the prescribed rhyt
ms and began slapping his thighs
and dancing something akin to
the boogaloo. One man took off
his jacket as he began to sweat.
As the tempo increased, mem
bers of the audience dropped out
of the chant, presumably from
exhaustion
Some of the Krishna Movement
devotees switched from swaying
to jumping up and down, always
in time with the drumbeats
played by Swami Hridayananda.
At the end of the chant, all the
Krishna Consciousness people
fell to the floor in positions of
extreme supplication facing the
altar at the front of the room.
Speaking in a language other
than English, the Swami led them
in a chant much like the Kyrie in
a Roman Catholic mass.
The altar was a collection of
brightly colored photographs and
posters, seven in all, arranged
among flowers and on some
HIROSHIMA
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bedspread-sized panels of cloth
often seen in head shops under
the name of Indian prints. A
smaller panel of red velvet edged
with gold braid lay in front of the
photographs On the red velvet
were several silver and gold
vessels whose purpose was not
explained.
The Swami had introduced the
chant by saying, “Do this and it’s
really transcendental. You can
really get into it.” Another
Krishna Consciousness person
said later that the chant offered
food to Krishna, that Krishna ate
the food and the people in the
room later ate the remnants. The
Young man, Michael Dasa
(Clackamas High School, near
Portland, Class of ’71), said
Krishna people offer everything
to Krishna, including the flowers
on the altar and their own bodies.
The Swami’s lecture defies
reporting completely, but
Movement beliefs may be
described as derived from the
menage that is the Hindu
religion. The Swami spoke of the
eight elements of the material
world. He spoke of the cycle of
Karma—death and rebirth of
spirits in new bodies in an endless
succession. He said the Krishna
Consciousness Movement
provides a way to escape this
cycle of rebirth and achieve
Enlightenment. The Swami
quoted from the Bhagavad-Gita
and Vedic literature iq their
original language, and then
translated for the audience.
After the lecture there was
another round of chanting. Then,
Movement people served the
audience some tasty vegetarian
food. There was curried rice with
cabbage and tomatoes. A sweet
mush with raisins and peanuts
called halvah was also included.
There was plenty of food and it
was filling and delicious.
The Krishna Consciousness
Movement is supported by
donations and by the sale of in
cense, books, and posters. There
are over 90 temples around the
'world, the closest at 2507 N.E.
Stanton in Portland where about
12 people live. The Movement will
soon be selling imported Indian
tunics handmade of bright cotton
for about $5.
Movement People embrace
poverty and chastity in their
search for Enlightenment. Theii
costumes are part of Hindu
tradition and serve to label the
devoted as servants of God. Their
shaved heads and dhoti, as the
costumes are called, are part of
the surrender of self that is a
necessary precursor of
Enlightenment. Movement
people use a string of 108 beads
called ‘japatan’ in their
devotions, and they do this a
minimum of 16 times a day.
According to Michael Dasa, the
residents of the temple in Port
land spend their days wholly in
devotional exercises and prayer,
from 3:45 a.m. until late evening.
Dasa said scripture classes,
chanting, selling books in
downtown Portland at 5th and
Morrison, and entertaining
visitors to the temple fill the time
of members every day.
Hare Krishna people are gentle
and sincere, and they embrace a
philosophy more sophisticated
human than that of the legions of
Jesus freaks on this campus.
Furthermore, Hare Krishna
NUC
pres^
Friday, May 4
^The Loneliness of the
[Long Distance Runner
This film is a finely honed study of a young Borstal boy’s
training for a foot race bet wen his reformatory and the
neighboring public school. In an early and brilliantly sullen
performance, Tom Courtenay frustrates his warden’s ob
sessive desire to pattern the reformatory after the school -
just short of winning the race, stops at the last step, waiting
for his opponent to pass him. The race is a beautiful
metaphor of society, examining the mind disrupted by
society’s alternate limits and flexibilities.
Also, OIL STRIKE, a short documentary of the 1969 oil
workers’ strike in Northern California.
180 PLC 7:00 and 9:15 P. M.
Admission #1
All profits go to movement &
community groups
people don’t disguise themselves
and spring on one without warn
ing with scripture in hand
waving tracts in one’s face. They
do no house to house canvassing
in a search for souls to “save.”
Ginsberg once said that any
Christian with more than two
suits is a hustler. Krishna Con
sciousness Movement people own
one suit each. One suit of clothes
and their own souls.
And they sell some of the finest
incense around.
Hare Krishna
Hare Krishna
Krishna, Krishna
Hare, Hare.
Hare Rama,
Hare Rama,
Rama, Rama,
Hare, Hare.
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