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2002/07/26
Dear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupad! We kindly request you all, collectively and individually, to chant and pray for the well-being of Prabhupad's dearmost son and our dearmost godbrother George Harrison.
Your servants,
Mukunda Goswami
Shyamasundar das
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He was very dear to Srila Prabhupada and foremost in assisting the mission in a grand way by sponsoring the the first printing of The Krishna Book upon the desire of Srila Prabhupada, in addition to donating Bhaktivedanta Manor.
Your Servant
Malati dd
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The healt of Sriman George Harrison was fall more and more. The media talk about one week more of his life. He has left the hospital internation, maybe to see for last time the beauty of the autumn.
Words from George Harrison
Everybody is looking for Krishna.
Some don’t realize that they are, but they are.
Krishna is GOD, the Source of all that exists, the Cause of all that is, was, or ever will be.
As GOD is unlimited, HE has many Names.
Allah-Buddha-Jehova-Rama:
All are KRISHNA, all are ONE.
By serving GOD through each thought, word, and DEED, and by chanting of HIS Holy Names, the devotee quickly develops God-consciousness.
By chanting Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama Rama Rama, Hare Hare
One inevitably arrives at Krishna Consciousness.
(The proof of the pudding is in the eating!)
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE (KRISHNA) HARI BOL
George Harrison
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Please remember...
In the summer of 1969, before the dissolution of the most popular music group of all time, George Harrison produced a hit single, The Hare Krishna Mantra, performed by George and the devotees of the London Radha-Krishna Temple. Soon after rising to the Top 10 or Top 20 best-selling record charts throughout England, Europe, and parts of Asia, the Hare Krishna chant became a household word.
Heorge Harrison said: I’d rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don’t understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.
George said: You know, having been successful and meeting everybody we thought worth meeting and finding out they weren’t worth meeting, and having had more hit records than everybody else and having done it bigger than everybody else. It was like reaching the top of a wall and then looking over and seeing that there’s so much more on the other side. So I felt it was part of my duty to say, “Oh, okay, maybe you are thinking this is all you need—to be rich and famous—but actually it isn’t.
The album All Things Must Pass, the country’s top selling album for seven weeks in a row, and its hit single My Sweet Lord, which was number one in America for two months. All known who is this Sweet Lord ... right?
A passtime of George: Once I chanted the Hare Krishna mantra all the way from France to Portugal, nonstop. I drove for about twenty-three hours and chanted all the way. It gets you feeling a bit invincible. The funny thing was that I didn’t even know where I was going. I mean I had bought a map, and I knew basically which way I was aiming, but I couldn’t speak French, Spanish, or Portuguese. But none of that seemed to matter. You know, once you get chanting, then things start to happen transcendentally.
Words of George: Chanting Hare Krishna is a type of meditation that can be practiced even if the mind is in turbulence. You can even be doing it and other things at the same time. That’s what’s so nice. In my life there’s been many times the mantra brought things around. It keeps me in tune with reality, and the more you sit in one place and chant, the more incense you offer to Kåñëa in the same room, the more you purify the vibration, the more you can achieve what you’re trying to do, which is just trying to remember God, God, God, God, God, as often as possible. And if you’re talking to Him with the mantra, it certainly helps.
George: I like the idea of seeing Krishna as a baby, the way He’s often depicted in India. And also Govinda, the cowherd boy. I like the idea that you can have Krishna as a baby and feel protective to Him, or as your friend, or as the guru or master-type figure.
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE.... ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE.....ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE.....LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED |
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2002/07/26
12/30/2001 Sriman George Harrison has left his body
A great loss to the Hare Krishna Community
Hare Krishna devotees are mourning the passing of George Harrison and extend their deep symphathy and affection to his family.
In 1969, George met Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON's founder-acharya, in London. They developed a close and affectionate relationship, and their association greatly influenced his music and spirituality.
The former Beatle was instrumental in helping devotees establish Krishna Consciousness in England. He arranged recording of some highly successful and classic records around 1970, providing huge publicity for Hare Krishna, and an income for the early Bury Place devotees such as his great friend Mukunda das (now swami).
On hearing the "Goddess of Fortune" LP, produced by George, Srila Prabhupada was moved to tears by its beauty, and decreed that the Govindam prayers from it should by played every morning in ISKCON temples to greet the deities.
In 1973 George Harrison donated his stately home in Hertfordshire, now known as Bhaktivedanta Manor, to the Hare Krishna movement. This has become one of ISKCON's main international centres and one of the most important Hindu temples in Europe. ISKCON feels greatly indebted to him for his generosity.
Srila Prabhupada only ever had praise to give of George, and dissuaded him from joining the movement full-time, saying that putting Krishna into his music and providing and example of a famous Krishna-conscious musician was the best service he could render to Krishna. He is also reputed to have said that there was no need for George to get a spiritual name, as he was already "son of Hari".
George was an intensely private person in all aspects of his life, including his spirituality; he was loved and admired by many devotees of Krishna who respected his attitude of humility and service.
There will be memorial services at Bhaktivedanta Manor and temples around the world over the next week.
Bhakta George Harrison Ki Jai!
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Dearest Devotees of Srila Prabhupad:
George Harrison has probably done more than any single popular cultural figure during these past few decades to spread spiritual consciousness around the world.
He transferred his perceptions of a state of being beyond and higher than ordinary consciousness into the words and music that altered millions of lives.
Along the way he became the friend and devoted servant of Bhaktivedanta Swami ("Prabhupad"), founder of the Hare Krishna movement. George's relationship with the Hare Krishnas was deep and long abiding since he met them in the late sixties.
During his last days, Krishna devotees were by his side and he left his body to the sounds of the Hare Krishna mantra.
The devotees of Prabhupad are eternally grateful to George Harrison for his boundless services to all living beings.
(Written by Shyamasundar das and Mukunda Goswami)
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...Olivia Harrison and Dhani, 23, left Britain on a private jet with friends from the Hare Krishna movement, to which the former Beatle was deeply committed, to conduct a ceremony in which his ashes will be scattered over the Yamuna river in northern India...
...Harrison's widow and son were at his side and with two Hare Krishna friends, Shayam Sundara (Prabhu) and Mukunda (Gosvami), they sang soft chants as he died serenely...
Daily Telegraph - UK
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Based on the time estimate reported above, Bhakta George Harrison quit his body during this most sacred month of Damodara (Kartika), Gaura paksha (waxing lunar fortnight) and either Caturdasi tithi (14th lunar phase) or Purnima tithi (full Moon, which started just two minutes later than above time estimate).
By Vaishnava tradition, the memorial service to honour the departure of a devotee is held on or after the third solar day.
So ISKCON temples worldwide can hold his memorial prayers and feast on the same days as their weekly public programs - on Saturday (today) or Sunday.
Your Servant
Goloka Candra dasa
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