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City
of
Holi
River
Ganga
Yamuna
Saraswati
What
is
ISKCON
The
International
Society
for
Krishna
Consciousness
(ISKCON),
otherwise
known
as
the
Hare
Krishna
movement,
includes
over
six
hundred
major
centers,
temples
and
rural
communities,
nearly
one
hundred
affilated
vegetarian
restaurants,
thousands
of
namahattas
or
local
meeting
groups,
a
wide
variety
of
community
projects,
and
millions
of
congregational
members
worldwide.
Although
in
less
than
sixty
years
on
the
global
stage,
ISKCON
has
expanded
widely
since
its
founding
by
His
Divine
Grace
A.
C.
Bhaktivedanta
Swami
Prabhupada
in
New
York
City
in
1966.
ISKCON
belongs
to
the
Gaudiya-Vaishnava
sampradaya,
a
monotheistic
tradition
within
the
Vedic
or
Hindu
culture.
Philosophically
it
is
based
on
the
Sanskrit
texts
Bhagavad-gītā
and
the
Bhagavat
Purana,
or
Srimad
Bhagavat.
These
are
the
historic
texts
of
the
devotional
bhakti
yoga
tradition,
which
teaches
that
the
ultimate
goal
for
all
living
beings
is
to
reawaken
their
love
for
God,
or
Lord
Krishna,
the
all-attractive
one.
God
is
known
across
the
world
by
many
names
including
Allah,
Jehovah,
Yahweh,
Rama,
etc.
ISKCON
devotees
chant
God’s
names
in
the
form
of
the
maha-mantra,
or
the
great
prayer
for
deliverance:
Hare
Krishna,
Hare
Krishna,
Krishna
Krishna,
Hare
Hare
Hare
Rama
Hare
Rama,
Rama
Rama,
Hare
Hare.
Many
leading
academics
have
highlighted
ISKCON’s
authenticity.
Diana
Eck,
Professor
of
Comparative
Religion
and
Indian
Studies
at
Harvard
University,
describes
the
movement
as
a
tradition
that
commands
a
respected
place
in
the
religious
life
of
humankind.
In
the
1980s
Dr.
A.
L.
Basham,
one
of
the
world’s
authorities
on
Indian
history
and
culture,
wrote
of
ISKCON
that,
It
arose
out
of
next
to
nothing
in
less
than
twenty
years
and
has
become
known
all
over
the
West.
This,
I
feel,
is
a
sign
of
the
times
and
an
important
fact
in
the
history
of
the
Western
world.
Prayagraj
Triveni
Sangam
Is
a
place
where
Three
Holi
rivers
Ganga
Yamuna
and
Saraswati
Saraswati
river
is
Hidden
as
it
has
high
sound
in
ancient
time
The
Kumbha
mela
is
arranged
in
city
in
2019
next
Kumbha
mela
will
be
in
2031
Every
12
year
Kumbh
will
be
arranged
and
in
every
6years
ardha
kumbh
will
be
there
During
kumbh
thre
will
be
huge
peoples
sadhu
sant
will
be
comming
here
for
Snan
Kumbh
Mela
or
Kumbha
Mela
is
a
major
pilgrimage
and
festival
in
Hinduism.
It
is
celebrated
in
a
cycle
of
approximately
12
years,
to
celebrate
every
revolution
Brihaspati
(Jupiter)
completes,
at
4
four
river-bank
pilgrimage
sites:
the
Prayagraj
(Ganges-Yamuna-Sarasvati
rivers
confluence),
Haridwar
(Ganges),
Nashik
(Godavari),
and
Ujjain
(Shipra)
The
festival
is
marked
by
a
ritual
dip
in
the
waters,
but
it
is
also
a
celebration
of
community
commerce
with
numerous
fairs,
education,
religious
discourses
by
saints,
mass
feedings
of
monks
or
the
poor,
and
entertainment
spectacle.
The
seekers
believe
that
bathing
in
these
rivers
is
a
means
to
prayaschit
(atonement,
penance)
for
past
mistakes,and
that
it
cleanses
them
of
their
sins.
The
festival
is
traditionally
credited
to
the
8th-century
Hindu
philosopher
and
saint
Adi
Shankara,
as
a
part
of
his
efforts
to
start
major
Hindu
gatherings
for
philosophical
discussions
and
debates
along
with
Hindu
monasteries
across
the
Indian
subcontinent.