Thursday, February 1st, 2025
243 Avenue Road, Toronto
Framed on the wall next to Govinda’s Dining Hall are two statements about the Hare Krishna Movement. Here they are:
“The Hare Krishna movement is but the most recent phase of an ancient tradition of religious piety known in India as Vaishnavism. The devotees in the Hare Krishna temple live a full and active life of study, prayer, singing, and day to day management of the temple’s activities. Many are also active in a variety of more practical tasks such as the publishing and sale of books, the manufacture of incense, the operation of vegetarian restaurants, and the launching of a small dance drama company. All observe abstention from meat, intoxicants, and drugs. In my judgement, it is indeed fortunate for these individuals and for the society in which they live that there has been available this outwardly exotic, but inwardly authentic and well-rounded way of religious communal life.”
Dr. Joseph T. O’Connell, Academic Director and Professor of Religion
Oxford University
University of Toronto
“The Krishna Consciousness movement is part of an important distinctive tradition of devotional faith, the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition, which began in the sixteenth century with the great saint, Sri Chaitanya, but which participates in a much older movement of devotion dating back to at least the 2nd century BC.
The devotion faith is called bhakti, which means devotion to God, or love of God. Bhakti expresses the relationship between human beings and the Lord. It is a relationship of shared being and of mutual love.”
Dr. Diana Eck, Professor of Hindu Religion, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies
Harvard University
MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU!
? KMS
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