Talk:Hare Krishna in popular culture

Hare Krishna... Virus?
Isn't Hare Krsna the name of a virus or something like that? 69.192.62.63 01:30, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * No, it is not virus, of course. But as there is need for anyone to become Krsna conscious - to stop repeated birth and death - sometimes people think that Hare Krsna spreads as fast as virus... But it is actually a cure to all viruses: people who chant Hare Krsna become free from diseases like meat-eating, alcohol-addiction, tobacco-addiction, illicit connections etc. So they become first class men. IF THEY ARE KRSNA CONSCIOUS.
 * There is a virus called Krishna, and a virus called Hare, but no Hare Krishna Virus. Dwayne Kirkwood 01:59, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Well the one called Hare makes a reference to Hare Krishna in it. I have never heard of the Krishna virus thought.... 69.192.62.63 21:50, 20 June 2006 (UTC)


 * See Hare (computer virus) for details on the Virus, but obviously Hare Krishna has been around a long time before computer viruses ever existed. ;-) GourangaUK 07:48, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

additions I made
I added one movie and two t.v sketch comedies and a fiction section which included two novels.
 * Shiva das 23:17, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

To GourangaUK, you shouldn't radically alter this article. I know that it's not all cited, but why gut the article? It's still accurate and informative, it's not like this is some majorly important article that needs to be taken seriously, it's just a trivia type of article in the first place, just let people add to it to see what we can learn, umkay?Shiva das (talk) 21:23, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Actually the article does need to be gutted, otherwise it will be deleted. Please see the last AFD nomination for details. Only specifically relating things stay, cameos don't. Chopper Dave (talk) 22:31, 14 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Dear Shiva das. My thoughts were originally the same as yours, but it was a choice of removing the trivia, or potentially having the entire article deleted. From the point of view of this being an encyclopedia I can understand why people don't want lots of articles filled with trivia information and so decided that to reduce it down to useful facts only was a good idea. Best wishes, Gouranga(UK) (talk) 20:07, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't get it. The only difference between now and then is the amount. In both cases it's just trivia. Why is less trivia somehow better, when usually in an encyclopedia of anything, the more the better? Shiva das (talk) 00:19, 19 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia's policy is not "the more the better". The article has been trimmed to the most notable and useful information on how Hare Krishna has affected popular culture. Mentioning every single time you see a Hare Krishna in a film or TV show is not useful or notable. It's trivia (which this article isn't). Chopper Dave (talk) 03:40, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Strange recollection
I have an odd recollection of seeing an old Saturday Night Live rerun, with someone like Father Guido Sarducci saying maha mantra for one reason or another. Of course, it is a very foggy memory, so I wont quote it until I get some confirmation. One thing I do know, I either heard Maha Mantra on an old SNL rerun (late 70's early 80's), or on the old program Second City TV. Siyavash 12:23, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Does this count? (Heroes, TV)
On Heroes, during the funeral services of Chandra Suresh, the priest is chanting some mantra concerning Sri Nrsimhadeva, but he appears to be wearing tilak from another Vaishnava sampradaya. I'm assuming this does NOT count to be listed in the article, but I'm mentioning it here just in case. Siyavash 15:35, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Movies
I think there is a reference in the movie Stripes. And as for George Harrison there is also a reference I think in the song "Living in the Material World." MDuchek 04:44, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Hitch movie
When Will Smith (at 32:47-49 min) crosses the street, two men cross it behind him, one of them looking as a devotee. Any confirmation? J. 90.177.206.31 (talk) 10:37, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Airports
Does anyone know how the association of Hare Krishna devotees with airports got started? Frotz (talk) 08:08, 12 October 2008 (UTC)


 * At one time (1970s to the mid 1980s in particular), it supposedly was not too uncommon to see Hare Krishna devotees at many airports trying to spread their message, find converts, and sell their books and roses. I'm not really sure how this practice of going to airports to preach, perform sankirtan, look for converts, and distribute books got started with them, but I will try and ask someone who may know more specifics on this particular topic.  I figure the reason they chose such a venue is because airports are places where people are always coming and going (no Larry Craig joke intended), especially well-to-do people who travel a lot (especially back in the 1970s when the Hare Krishna movement was really taking off), and the group is very much about proselytism, getting new converts and spreading their message.  Also, a lot of people from all over the world enter into countries via airports, and the big Hare Krishna organization, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), insists that its aim and goal is to spread "Krishna Consciousness" all over the globe.  Perhaps one of the best ways they thought they could spread their message all over the world was to go to airports and attempt to spread it around from there.  For many years this practice likely got the group more attention than they may have gotten otherwise, but these days nobody seems to want people just "loitering" around airports due to security concerns and whatnot.  Nevertheless, don't despair all you "Hare Krishna Fans" (not necessarily strict followers of Krishna precisely, but rather, fans of the followers of Krishna specifically), there are still some Hare Krishna devotees out there in the world banging on mrdangas, trying to sell their books, and chanting the Hare Krishna Mantra.  And for all of you who aren't "Hare Krishna Fans", there are still Hare Krishna devotees out there today anyhow, though it seems not quite as many of them as there used to be. Geneisner (talk) 10:30, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Greetings. Airports were great places to get donations for books & flowers & other paraphernalia because people traveling by air usually carry extra cash, and it was easy for trained solicitors to get them to part with some of it. This fact was discovered probably in the early 1970s. I was approached at the Chicago O'Hare airport in 1978. ISKCON was able to legally do this because of First Amendment to the United States Constitution rights. Unfortunately, devotees began using deceitful methods of increasing their collections, and a backlash was created. Some airport employees, disturbed by seeing thousands of travelers ripped off, created vigilante teams which followed book distributors and harassed them. See Russell Chandler and Evan Maxwell in “Krishna: Earthly Kingdom of Movement Evidences Disarray,” Los Angeles Times (February 15, 1981). After many lawsuits they were eventually banned from most airports in the mid-1980s. Henry Doktorski (talk) 14:20, 14 October 2008 (UTC)


 * That's actually not the full story, as in more recent times Hare Krishna devotees were legally allowed to distribute at airports until 9-11, after which point Airport security became much stricter in the US. That is the single most reason today why Hare Krishna's are very rarely seen selling books at airports any more. Many members around the US collected using sincere and honest means and did not experience the events described above. 90.214.26.165 (talk) 14:02, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

But wasn't the Hare Krishna movement on the decline by the late 1990s anyway, and so wasn't there less of a Hare Krishna presence at airports (generally speaking) around the United States (and possibly elsewhere too) leading up to the time prior to 9-11 anyway? I'm sure that after 9-11 they were even less welcome at airports, but isn't it also true that the movement had been on the decline (visibly and perhaps in other ways) for some years before this also? From what I can tell, this seems to have been the case. Any other views and/or thoughts on this subject? Geneisner (talk) 23:06, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

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