Anyone heard of the Hare Krishna's?

Question

I'm a Hare krishna and I was wondering if anyone has heard of us and what they think?
All answers open!

Answer 1

You people are a cult, just like Islam and Jehovah's Witnesses. Hare Krishna people ask for money in a shake-down kind of way and think they are Hindu hippies. Hinduism is a legitimate religion, Hare Krishna is not.

Answer 2

Yes. Where I live the Hare Krishnas are always out on the street feeding the homeless while banging a tambourine. They seem to really avoid communicating with other people unless it's related to Krishna. Most people I know do not care for the Hare Krishnas, don't take them seriously, find them annoying or believe it's a cult. There was even the rumor that they were putting something in the free food to try to sterilize the homeless people. They aren't exactly loved by the people in the neighborhood. I try to stay out of it but the tambourine/chanting is really annoying especially when I had to hear it for 3 hours straight while I was at work. After awhile, it's basically just more noise pollution.

Answer 3

Yep, I'm a Hare krishna too. Hinduism and Vaisnavaism (Hare krishna) come from the same country but other than that they don't have so much in common. While Hindu's worship many gods we just worship one supreme lord called Krishna. There is a very complex and deep philosophy and story of creation. If you read the Shrimad-Bhagavatam it will tell you the whole story.
I myself have been to India 6 times visiting the holy sites and I just love it. it's so fascinating!
The food and music and dance is great as well. We have restaurants and temples all over the world. Our founder, left his home country of India to travel and preach.....otherwise it wouldn't have reached such large numbers in so many places. It's great!!

Answer 4

I know very little but read some of the book about their Supreme Lord. It sounds very good and has great philosophy but has no story of creation. If I were searching for religion I might be swayed to be a Hare Krishna.

Answer 5

The Hare Krishna's can be TERRIBLE.

Recently I visited and they had a special "visiting monk", an author that had been to Yale decades ago, utterly smug and simplistic in his world view - essentially telling people that (wait for it, the predictability is like a brick between the eyes) "we are lost in a world of temporary pleasures and pursuits, and that the yoga's outlined in BG will be the source of opulence/transcendence/greater meaning/psychic depths" etc etc etc.

That that monks that run these bad vegetarian restaurants NEVER reveal the technique, proof or verifiable advantages of such a life goes without saying; they get people that feel marginalized, hateful (or possibly guilty) about their previous life to be young and impressionable enough to commit to a pointless programme of work exploitation, retail, low level brainwashing and fast-food Hinduism.

They have LONG been accepted by people simply because they offer cheap vegetarian food, which is SOMETIMES pretty good, but often just average or terrible. They get "volunteers" to help, who are often from poor countries or in dire financial situations, while they rake in thousands every week, forever hiding behind a soft-sell of fake guilt, fake religion and requests for "donations" for their hideously camp books.

Hare Krishna: the most materialistic, sales driven, religiously ignored group that have ever sold a plate of steamed vegetables to a hippie. DON'T GET TOO CLOSE TO THESE PEOPLE: their self-martyrdom and hypocrisy is intolerable, and they want you to feel obliged to BUY THEIR BOOKS, because that's part of the ISKCON forced choice deal.

You need FOOD to live - get on with your lives.

In retrospect, there ARE some good people in the ISKCON cult; they could put their brains and talent to better use elsewhere. Endless cults cropped up in the social breakdown of the nineteen sixties, and so far, virtually no-one has taken them, or their Indian classic text seriously. They're a pop-philosophy joke for teenagers and losers.

Answer 6

First time I met one of the Hare Krishna's was at the Los Angeles International Airport in 1962... Orange dress... bald heads... strange vision for a boy from Michigan to see when he came to join the Navy.

Answer 7

Yes, I've heard of them and even met a few. Last summer they had some cultural event in my city where they were singing and cooking and I've seen them walking around singing and dancing on the streets too. I don't know much about the Hare Krishna's, but you seem interesting.

Answer 8

I remember the Hare Krishna's from back in the 60's and 70's and they were all over the place at the airports and Hollywood, dressed in white gowns, shaven heads and playing tambourines.
They were a cult which had an eastern philosophy.

Answer 9

Yeah, I've heard about the Hare Krishnas in Perth, W.A. They make yummy food and it's only two or three bucks to take away, so handy if you're in town at the right time. But the chanting! Don't get me started! No really, don't! It's so annoying!!! They dance their way into town quite often and disturb the peace with their hare hare rama rama yama banana rama rama OMG SHUTUP!!!!!!!!!! Ever considered giving people PEACE AND QUIET!?! Rama rama yo self!

Answer 10

I'm a Hindu and yes i heard of the hare krishna hare rama sect and regarding what I think well to be frank my knowledge is very limited about the functioning of your sect and from what i heard i prefer to be as i am.