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\"harrison\"<\/a>(VNN)\u00a0By Enrique Lopetegui via Sacurrent<\/p>\n

George Harrison<\/strong>: The former Beatle was a great friend of the Hare Krishnas. He paid for the publication of the first edition of the Krishna book (for which he also wrote the introduction), bought the Bhaktivedanta Manor to be used as a temple near London, recorded with the Hare Krishnas (\u201cMy Sweet Lord\u201d and the\u00a0Radha Krishna Temple<\/em>\u00a0album both reached number one), and died in the company of Ravi Shankar and two Hare Krishna devotees, in front of pictures of Krishna and Rama.<\/p>\n

Russell Brand:\u00a0<\/strong>The Sun<\/em>\u2019s \u201cShagger of the Year\u201d winner in 2006-08 married singer Katy Perry in India in a Hare Krishna ceremony, after befriending prominent Radhanath Swami<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s a beautiful fellow,\u201d Brand told London\u2019s\u00a0The Times<\/em>. \u201cHe\u2019s got the answer. I\u2019m a spiritual gent and increasingly that\u2019s the level I want to vibrate on, were it not for my crazed lust for sex and glamour.\u201d In spite of the Swami\u2019s blessings, the marriage to Perry only lasted 14 months.<\/p>\n

Steve Jobs:<\/strong>\u00a0During his famous Stanford commencement speech in 2005, the late founder of Apple remembered how he survived in the early days. \u201cI didn\u2019t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends\u2019 rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the 5-cent deposits to buy food with. And I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allen Ginsberg:<\/strong>\u00a0The author of\u00a0Howl\u00a0<\/em>brought the chanting of Hare Krishna to the U.S. even before Hare Krishna founder A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada came to the West in 1965. \u201cUsually all the gurus lived on the rich part [of New York] and were sponsored by the rich, but [Prabhupada] moved to the Lower East Side \u2026 where the hippies, acid-heads, freaks, amphetamine-heads, and the meth monsters were,\u201d said Ginsberg. \u201cIt was a stroke of brilliant social judgment on his part.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poly Styrene (Maharani Dasi):<\/strong>\u00a0The singer for X-Ray Spex became initiated and lived at the London temple in 1983-88.<\/p>\n

Don Foose:<\/strong>\u00a0The leader of Cleveland\u2019s The Spudmonsters and Foose is a hardcore, straightedge punk rocker and devout Hare Krishna. Other famous \u201cKrishnacore\u201d bands were Shelter, Cro-Mags, and 108.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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