Krishna group in Hawaii
Date: September 07, 2006 09:24PM
Hey, this is a great topic... I was born into a family of Chris' disciples (forgive any spelling mistakes) in New Zealand, also lived in Hawaii, too.
I just wanted to say that the post by "justbabbling" on page 5 sounds right on to me, I knew of all those people by their krsna names, I knew Wayne Nishiki personally, I propbably at least saw most of the others.
Wayne was a cool guy, it has been a while since those days.
I really like the posts from "yourmaster", I want to know what butler wants to forget.
I have only read through the first few pages, but I will keep going.
So, yeah, I was born and raised with my Mum and Dad following him since I was born, they became disciples early on, they are still going strong to this day, 27 years later.
My legal name is Rama Das (last name omitted), talk about a slave name!
I have a brother, he is still very devoted, also.
My brother and I shipped out to the little school out in the Phillipines, I was good after 2 weeks, I guess showering from a bucket of cold water with a cup at 4 a.m. was not quite my style, although my brother spent about 4-5 consecutive years there.(he would come home for the holidays, once a year.)
Oh, yeah, incase you couldn't tell, I am not down with the program at all, any time that the pressure was a little less, I would always gravitate away from this stuff, at the age of 15 I chose the church of SKATAN.
I hung up my beads and just rolled on my board. I still held the belief system untill I was about 20, you know, maybee I'll get it together before I die or whatever, but at 20, I remember the afternoon, it took only one very clear moment to absolutely let it all go.
I was not scared, it was possibly the single most liberating moment of my life.
I simply knew that I didn't need it anymore.
And it is crazy how powerful that simple action was, how fast things started moving in my life since then. I knew that the only way to really be a real person was to work from the ground up.
Maybee I can explain a little.
I know I am me, and I know that I am okay. I also knew that, believe it or not, I am here and I actually feel like I want to be here.
I wanted to honor that and really let myself fully come into that fact.
I think the truth is that we are all amazing and we all truly have nothing to worry about.
So start there.
We have all wasted enough time with destructive addictive inherited completely invented and man-made ideas. let it go.
You think that spending a whole lifetime indulging your ego in superficial sacrifices, austerities and forced devotion while suspending your independence and blindly, ignorantly accepting every aspect of a hatefull pathetic and truly ignorant little man's ideology as you find comfort in mutual agreement amongst your peers in such spiritual truths as "vote bush because he is against f-gs getting married" will equate to eternal salvation?
I just wonder how many lifetimes you have all been doing exactly what you are in this one.
It makes me so sick, and I swear that literally EVERYONE that I ever knew growing up that was a part of this still are to this day, only all the kids who I used to play with OUTSIDE while our parents were inside chanting have all married, had kids and are, at this moment, doing the right thing and contributing to a planet of seriously redundant people.
...and I love yaz
the last name is Ranson, I will laugh if this gets back to me through my parents.
but joking I am not.
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