Ep. - 812 - KRISHNAS: GURUS. KARMA. MURDER
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.7 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Executive Producers Joseph Freed and Allison Berkley discuss the three-part Peacock series. When an Indian Swami gives a lost generation of Americans a new message of love, the Hare Krishna religion is born. But when the Swami dies without finishing his mission, an American Guru tries to seize control of the movement, leading to accusations of racketeering and murder, and investigations by a West Virginia Sheriff’s Detective, the LAPD and the FBI. Krishnas: Gurus. Karma. Murder. gives a glimpse into the epic American tale about charismatic personalities that offer divine light, and Krishna devotees who discover their movement has been corrupted by greed, lust for power and vengeance.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going deep into my wife's family history, digging up the cold case of her murdered great |
| 0:25.4 | grandmother. And did I mention that I'm looking into whether the murderer was actually the |
| 0:29.4 | beloved family patriarch? Binge all episodes of Ghost Story at 3 right now on |
| 0:35.0 | Wondry Plus. Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with King Casey. In this episode, |
| 0:45.8 | I covered the three-part peacock docu-series, Krishnas, gurus, karma, murder. If you love true crime |
| 0:52.8 | docu-series, you're going to love this one. And if you loved Netflix's Wild, Wild Country, |
| 0:58.0 | one of my favorite docu-series of all time, you will also love this series. So to give you |
| 1:03.4 | background, the Hari Krishna movement is a branch of Hinduism and its name come from its chant. Hari |
| 1:09.7 | Krishna, in which Devotees repeat over and over. It was started in the 16th century and they emphasize |
| 1:16.4 | the worship of Krishna and believe that chanting the names of God was so powerful that in addition |
| 1:21.7 | to one's own meditation on them, they should also be chanted in the streets for the benefit of all. |
| 1:26.8 | The Hari Krishna movement in the United States was founded in the 1960s by religious leader Swami |
| 1:32.5 | Prabhupada. Followers were attracted by its ideology of spiritual awakening rooted in peace and love. |
| 1:39.5 | The movement formerly called the International Society of Creation of Consciousness had the |
| 1:45.0 | public dancing and chanting and that became its trademark. Devotees of the Hari Krishna movement |
| 1:51.4 | considered themselves monotheistic and according to sacred texts, Krishna is the supreme God who |
| 1:57.9 | oversees millions of demigods who were seen as administrators of the universal affairs. So these |
| 2:04.0 | demigods are needed to run creation and they have certain roles but just as the secretary of state |
| 2:09.6 | reports to the president, these demigods serve at the pleasure of Krishna. George Harrison from |
| 2:15.4 | the Beatles went on to help popularize the movement not only by producing his own Hari Krishna |
| 2:21.8 | but also most famously through his worldwide hit My Sweet Lord in which he sang about his quest |
| 2:27.6 | for a personal relationship with God while his background singers chanted the Hari Krishna mantra |
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