Happiness On 2nd Avenue — Vintage Short Films
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- I’m Reed Colin’s
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- Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
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- A hypnotic rhythmic chant of 16 words has replaced LSD and other drugs for some in New York’s East Village.
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- On 2nd Ave. and 1st St. is a storefront in which a Hindu Swami has set up shop.
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- There his American disciples are learning about Krishna consciousness.
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- And in nature we have all of the beautiful things and ugly things, we have duality.
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- But the chant is to get us out of nature and into Krishna’s superior universe. Which is the spiritual universe.
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- And this is what the chant is really intended to do, to take you off into eternity.
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- I started chanting in July, I was still taking LSD at the time, but he was against LSD, he said…
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- I told him what you think of my taking LSD for spiritual realization, expanded consciousness.
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- I was interested in staying high forever as it were.
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- Maintaining an awareness of the universe that was flowing through me and passed me at every second of my life.
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- He said, “That’s not necessary, your spiritual life is already here.”
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- He says you don’t need to take anything for your spiritual life.
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- And I knew he was right and he hand that exalted state of consciousness. I sensed it.
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- And I knew he didn’t take anything.
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- And I knew that I wanted this state of consciousness and that he could teach it to me.
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- Krishna consciousness is nothing but the moment-to-moment realization that nothing is yours.
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- Neither anything that you use in this world or your body or even your mind.
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- Krishna is our Devine father, the one Lord. It doesn’t matter what: you call Him:
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- Allah, Muhammad, Buddha, Jehovah, Christ. There’s only one.
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- Krishna is our father. All things are His. And we have happiness, true happiness when we use all things for Him.
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- I practice my Krishna consciousness by chanting when I work and on my way to work.
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- And this is what we asked all good people, to try chanting, try it when you wake up in the morning,
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- Try it on your way to work on the subway. I know I chant every day on the way to work on the subway.
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- Other people are kicking and shoving and I’m chanting, and I enjoy my subway ride.
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- And now we’re going to go up town to St Marks Place to do our kirtan
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- and spread joy and peace to the people of New York.
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- We invite all our friends to join us. Hare Krishna.
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