Hare Krishna

If you think that Hare Krishna disappeared when Wodnika Era ended, take a look well at work - they can work in your office, in garniturze and a full head of hair. This year Hare Krishna celebrate 40-th anniversary of the ISKCON-u. Since the creation of its religious institutions joined the mainstream of society. Once confessors were discouraging to maintain ties with the outside world, including with their families. Currently Hare Krishna live and rotate among the people like all others, and his garments, and the names of Sanskrit wearing only during visits to the temple. I do not operate at the airports .

"Today it is quite possible that the member of Hare Krishna lives next to you, and you do not even know it," says Burke Rochford, Middlebury College professor and author of forthcoming book "transformed Kryszna Hare [Hare Krishna Transformed]. "Krysznaici are now simply part of the culture at the ways in which 20 or 25 years ago the average person does not imagine the goals."

According to Rochford, in the year 2000 in the American churches Kryszna Hare lived only admirers of 750-900, compared to approximately 3,000 in the 70-years. Today in Washington live in the houses of only 15 people, 20 fewer than in 1980, but on the weekly devotions appears around 400 people, the amount for which highly influenced by the increasing proportion of immigrants from India, seeking the participation of religious hinduistycznym. In general, the movement around the world has 400 temples and give the number of believers at 1 million. In the United States has to be around 100,000 - more than 4 times in those 80-years (the researchers indicate lower quantities).