His Holiness Janananda Swami dishes up a $3 Hare Krishna lunch to Rika Takeda (19) at the Otago University Students’ Association recreation centre yesterday. Helping are Dunedin Hare Krishna co-ordinator Jane Beecroft and volunteer Callum McLean. Photo by Linda Robertson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe Hare Krishna faith was more a science than a religion, a visiting swami said in Dunedin yesterday.<\/p>\n
”In reality, we’re not really a religion. We’re probably better described as a science; searching for who we are and what our purpose in life is,” His Holiness Janananda Swami said in Dunedin yesterday.<\/p>\n
”Religion can include or exclude. We’re open to everybody.<\/p>\n
”This is something everybody can adapt to their life. It’s a release from the materialism of the age.”<\/p>\n
The 64-year-old joined the Hare Krishnas in the mid-1960s.<\/p>\n
”It was the hippy time and I was into a lot of the things the Hare Krishnas were into; the idea of love and peace and a better world,” he recalled.<\/p>\n
”One day, I was looking for something to read and found two Hare Krishna books in a friend’s rubbish. That’s how it works.<\/p>\n
”Back then, we used to share our toothpaste, soap and clothes. You had no clothes of your own. You shared everything. But, it is difficult to sustain that.”<\/p>\n
The swami grew up in a conventional family in Swindon, England – ”… but there was an underlying feeling I wanted to serve society and a desire to understand more about our meaning in this world.”<\/p>\n
For the past 15 years, he has roamed the world as ”a wandering monk”.<\/p>\n
”I’m travelling all the time and spreading the good word.<\/p>\n
”It is hard to be harmonious in this world. He said most people do not understand how much more fulfilled and happier and at home they could be with each other.<\/p>\n
”Inside, we’re all the same. Our potency is within all of us.<\/p>\n
”Our body and talents are not ours; they’re gifts of god for everyone’s benefit.<\/p>\n
”The most intelligent thing is to work according to your nature.”<\/p>\n
The swami yesterday had a look at the new London St Dunedin Hare Krishna Cultural Centre, which was donated earlier this year, by Dr Karuna Sindhu Dasa and his late-mother, Madam Yap.<\/p>\n
”I think it is fantastic. It’s a great upliftment for the people of Dunedin. He said it would ”expand the family here”.<\/p>\n
”We’re all in the same family, no matter what our race, colour or religion.”<\/p>\n
The swami will hold a talk, ”An Ocean of Love”, at 7pm today at the recreation centre, before leaving Dunedin tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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