Virtual Worlds and Spiritual Life

Philosophy · asked by user [] · 2010-02-22 · 2 answers

Someone made a Hare Krishna Temple in Second Life, its basic and nice. Srila Prabhupada is chanting inside and his picture is on a Vyasana at one end of the temple and a brass Kaliya Krishna is the diety at the other end, with pictures of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu on the walls. There is a worship pose ball so your avatar can worship and a dance poseball so your avatar can dance in the temple.

I guess if you live and work in the Antartica then its half reasonable, except just one thing missing....no devotees around.

I guess we could all log into second life and go there, and talk in voice try and get people to join up, we could distribute links to Srila Prabhupadas books ...LOL

If you have a second life client program you can visit the temple here:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hugues/40/241/55

user [166] · 2010-02-22

Here is the old Second Life temple :-)

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/8183/arati3001.jpg

There used to be people that would fly in and check us out....asking about me doing the arati and what it meant...can be a good portal for preaching.

Here is a much bigger virtual temple in Second Life http://slurl.com/secondlife/Archers/189/229/23

user [343] · 2010-02-22

Oh wow what a stunning picture (Jagannath is my Ishta Devata, I have a big Jagannath diety in my house, he is the lord of my heart, hes always running towards Vrindavan and he reminds me what I should be doing), absolutely rasa108, the times are changing and in these online worlds, you can communicate in open chat or voice, play music (bhajan/kirtan/lecture) open up websites for people. There is no limit to Krishna Consciousness, Second life is so huge there are literally tens of thousands of people online at any one time. Its amazing to think that for some people this may be their first form of contact with a devotee.

Some people due to ill health will never leave their homes and many wander around in these online worlds looking for meaning or just chilling out looking around, Iskcon should have a presence in Second Life, its a non stop preaching avenue that has access to people 24 X 7 with the numbers around about 50,000-60,000 people logged in at any point in time.

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