Krishna Camp Videocast 02 - What is a Hippie? April 28, 2006
Posted by admin in : Video, Media , add a commentBhaktivedanta Swami seemed to have no friends in America but was alone, totally alone, and gone somewhat like a lone hippie to the nearest refuge, the place where it was cheap enough to rent.
There were a few people sitting cross-legged on the floor. I think most of them were Lower East Side hippies who had just wandered in off the street, with beards and a curiosity and inquisitiveness and a respect for spiritual presentation of some kind. Some of them were sitting there with glazed eyes, but most of them were just like gentle folk—bearded, hip, and curious. They were refugees from the middle class in the Lower East Side, looking exactly like the street sadhus in India. It was very similar, that phase in American underground history. And I liked immediately the idea that Swami Bhaktivedanta had chosen the Lower East Side of New York for his practice. He’d gone to the lower depths. He’d gone to a spot more like the side streets of Calcutta than any other place.
-Allen Ginsberg
Krishna Camp Videocast 01 - Intro
Posted by admin in : Video, Media , add a commentThe Rainbow Gathering, located in an isolated national forest, is an
annual festival that attracts over 40,000 spiritual seekers. Since
1972, the Krishna Camp has been flooding the gathering with
prasadam and Krishna kirtan.
It is our sincere desire to continue to expand our love so please come and participate for a week of chanting, dancing, and feasting.
