Hare Krishna movement is not only a movement. It brings an adoption of a new pattern of thinking, level of personality and quest of personal identity.
Hare Krishna Movement first appeared in the West closing to
the end of 1960, particularly in America.
Slowly and gradually, it spreads to Europe, and finally, it arrived in
Central and Eastern Europe.
The ISKCON [The international society for Krishna Consciousness] is solely responsible to propagate the fundamentalist
theology of Krishna consciousness. From
the early 1990s, it has been seen in Hungary.
Swami Prabhupada was the main architect who sprang up to popularize
the teachings of Bhagwan Shri Krishna through ISKCON.
In the initial stage, Hare Krishna Movement is under
suspicion, and it is a bit challenging to accept in the West and across Central
and Europe. In the beginning, the people
are raged, and they accused the Movement of brainwashing but slowly due to the
broadening understanding and to the internal reforms of the ISKCON, this
Movement is widely accepted as a change of identity.
Now, this movement has made an impact and it finds it better
to adapt to Western civilization. One
can analyze the induction of the Hare Krishna Movement permits family life and
improving women’s situation within the Movement.
From the Hare Krishna Movement, it has been observed that
they want to achieve the most important goal i.e. the eternal unchangeability,
the Krishna consciousness.
The Hare Krishna Movement or ISKCON traditionally regarded a
new religious movement in sociology. Research
showed that the Krishna Movement, those who have long longer the person’s
membership helps to stabilize the self-image of its members. It is divided into two aspects --
re-interpreting the past based on the experiences of the present, and on the
other hand, re-interpreting it based on the “truth” or not.
It is important that every person needs to understand the
surroundings and functionality of the world i.e. internal or external
cause. Internal attribution means that
one is responsible for the events, while external attribution means the
opposite, that the others are responsible for the events – the surroundings,
nature, society, and not the individual.
When we say ‘God is love” but no one can precisely tell what
God is like, for no one has ever seen Him.
That is an iconic feeling to have something or formerly been hidden from
them and to trace the root of its Krishan Consciousness reckons the new pattern
of thinking.
When the Western people are religiously converted and follow
the devotion path of Krishna Consciousness, they are called Krishna monks or
merely Krishna followers and, in this process, the changes unfold -- is
in the form of awakening. Those who are
Krishna Consciousness have to strictly follow vegetarianism, abstinence from
drugs and intoxicants, sexuality allowed only in marriage for the purpose of
procreation and regular prayer life.
The main core of Krishan Consciousness is the
- Meaning of life
- Quest for an eternal purpose
- Incomplete/missing but never know what exactly it is
- Search for real and pure
- Intellectual search [closer and closer to the Krishna consciousness]
- Received genuine answers to everything
- Acquisition of the knowledge
- One’s earthly life is determined by its karma
For Krishna followers or Krishna monks, it is a new mindset,
as a personal way of thinking and a lifestyle.
The purpose of their work is to improve themselves and to convert others, who are truly in quest for authenticity.
In general, when we encountered hardships and difficulties,
we tend to dishearten but once you become the Krishna consciousness, all the
sufferings become meaningful and they think of karma, and afterwards, the life
becomes more relaxed.
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