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The Hare Krishna Tree, an American Elm in Tompkins Square Park, New York City, under which Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada began the first recorded public chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra outside India. [20] The Hare Krishna mantra appears in a number of famous songs, notably those of George Harrison.
The hippie-themed Hair (1967) contains the whole Hare Krishna chant as a song, and in the Miloš Forman film Hair (1979), Hare Krishna followers are depicted dancing and in addition to the chant singing about other subjects at a be-in: "Marijuana marijuana, Juana juana mari mari, Beads, flowers, freedom, happiness"
Like the album's title track, it was inspired by the teachings of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), more commonly known as the Hare Krishna movement. The song is an uptempo rock track with elements of blues and gospel.
[160] Some Christian fundamentalist anti-rock activists have objected that chanting "Hare Krishna" in "My Sweet Lord" was anti-Christian or Satanic, while some born-again Christians adopted the song as an anthem. [161] Simon Leng describes the slide guitar motif as "among the best-known guitar passages in popular music". [162]
The Radha Krsna Temple is a 1971 album of Hindu devotional songs recorded by the UK branch of the Hare Krishna movement – more formally, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) – who received the artist credit of "Radha Krishna Temple (London)".
George Harrison (left) with Hare Krishna devotees Shyamsundar Das and Mukunda Goswami in the Indian holy city of Vrindavan, in 1996. After the break-up of the Beatles, Lennon continued to reject religious teaching and organised religions. His 1971 single "Imagine" has been described as an "atheist anthem". [15]
By Krishna Dasa (disciple of Visvanatha Chakravarti). Expounded on his guru's eleven sutras, often quoting verses from Vrindavana Dasa Thakura's Chaitanya Bhagavata, plus songs by Narahari Ghanashyama (author of Bhakti-Ratnakara) and Lochana Dasa (author of Chaitanya-Mangala). Caitanya-upanisad
Titled "Hare Krishna Mantra", the song reached the top twenty on the UK music charts, and was also successful in West Germany and Czechoslovakia. [23] [25] The mantra of the Upanishad thus helped bring Bhaktivedanta and ISKCON ideas into the West. [23] Kenneth Womack states that "Hare Krishna Mantra" became "a surprise number 12 hit" in Britain ...