Visit to ISKCON temple - Bangalore.

We had plan to visit ISKCON temple on saturday but somehow we missed it as we were roaming and enquiring about my new mobile, Sony Ericsson's P1i. Luckly I got it yesterday and its really Kooooool...... :)

So ISKCON, The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is the religious organization for devotees of Krishna. As far as i know there priciple matra is,

"Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare."

where Krishna means "The All-Attractive", Hare addresses the energy of god and Rama means "The Greatest Pleasure" - This is what i read on there site.

I have never been to any ISKCON temple before so this was a good experiance for me. It was looking typical south indian temple from outside so felt it would be the same like other temples but when we entered into main area temple i amazed by huge dome over the temple and a small golden temple covering lord Krishna-Radha and Brother Sudama.

There was two entries to go in, general entry which is free and open to all and special darshan which cost 150 bucks in which they you can have close darshan. We choosed special darshan as they promised to give us a 50Rs back as a coupen which we can use to buy books or cd's and also a Prasadam which we found really good later. So next time when i visit, will surely take special darshan just for a Prasadam.

To reach to main temple, you have to step up around 150-200 steps. There is a open area exactly around the main temple from where you can see almost 1/4 of bangalore and it was evening 6-6.30 when we reach there. One thing i dont like that they dont allow anyone to carry camera's :( so wont able to catch a single pic.

We have got free passes of personality development programs which suppose to be happen on next saturday. Hope I would be able to attend that as I am oncall next week for 2 days.... :(