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| Prabhupada Letters :: 1966 a.c. bhaktivedanta swami |
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9 October 2004 Sunday, October 9, 1966 
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami beneath Tompkins Square elm tree, 1966. "On October 9, 1966, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and his followers sat beneath this tree and held the first outdoor chanting session outside of India. Participants chanted for two hours as they danced and played cymbals, tambourines, and other percussive instruments. "The event is recognized as the founding of the Hare Krishna movement in the United States. Prabhupada's diverse group that day included Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997). Krishna adherents continue to return to the tree to acknowledge its significance." October 2001 Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mayor City of New York letters | 01:08 | Swami's Flock Chants in Park to Find Ecstacy Sitting under a tree in a Lower East Side park and occasionally dancing, fifty followers of a Hindu swami repeated a sixteen-word chant for two hours yesterday afternoon to the accompaniment of cymbals, tambourines, sticks, drums, bells, and a small reed organ... repetition of the chant, Swami A. C. Bhaktivedanta says, is the best way to achieve self-realization in this age of destruction... many in the crowd of about a hundred persons standing around the chanters found themselves swaying to or clapping hands in time to the hypnotic rythmic music. 'It brings a state of ecstasy,' said Allen Ginsberg the poet... the ecstasy of the chant or mantra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare has replaced LSD and other drugs for many of the Swami's followers. [From the New York Times, October 9, 1966] letters | 01:01 | 7 October 2004 MEMORANDA: Friday 7 October October 7th 1966. Friday Fund raising for Rupanuga Para Vidya Pitha Vrindaban began today. Steve (Satyasvarupa donated $100.00.) letters | 02:57 | |
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