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4 days ago · Bhaktivedanta Swami personally taught his first followers to spread Krishna’s message, prepare food to offer to Krishna, collect donations, and chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra (“great mantra”) on the streets.
4 days ago · Karna aims the Nagastra at the head of Arjuna and releases it. However, Bhagavan Sri Krishna, who is Arjuna’s charioteer, presses the chariot down with His toe, and the chariot goes down a few inches. The arrow misses its target and knocks off Arjuna’s headgear.
4 days ago · The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organization. It was founded on 13 July 1966 in New York City by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Its main headquarters is located in Mayapur, West Bengal, India.
4 days ago · The earliest textual reference or mention of Sri Krishna in a Hindu scripture is found in the Vedas. Vishnu or Krishna is described as cowherd in Rig Veda. The reference to Krishna is found in Rig Veda 1.22.18. Krishna as cowherd has hidden symbolism.
4 days ago · Nanda was the foster father of Sri Krishna and he was the leader of the cowherds. As per the story in the Bhagavata Purana, Nanda Maharaj in his previous birth was one of the eight vasus. Due to a curse he was born as a cowherd. He is also known as Nanda Baba or Nandagopal or Nandagopar.
2 days ago · Hare Krishna, popular name of a semimonastic Vaishnava Hindu organization founded in the United States in 1965 by A.C. Bhaktivedanta (Swami Prabhupada; 1896–1977). This movement is a Western outgrowth of the popular Bengali bhakti (devotional) yoga tradition, or Krishna Consciousness, which began in the 16th century.
1 day ago · Prime Minister of India. Rajiv Gandhi was in West Bengal on 31 October 1984 when his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, to avenge the military attack on the Golden Temple during Operation Blue Star.
