THE FAB FOUR - BEATLES & GEORGE HARRISON'S CONTRIBUTION TO ISKCON 6 MINUTE DOCUMENTARY

BEATLES & GEORGE HARRISON'S CONTRIBUTION TO ISKCON (video directed by Basant P. Tolani)
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During the filming of the movie Help!, on location in the Bahamas, a Hindu devotee presented each Beatle with a book about reincarnation. Harrison's interest in Indian culture expanded to Hinduism. During a pilgrimage to Bombay, India with his wife, Harrison studied sitar, met several gurus and visited various holy places, filling the months between the end of the final Beatles tour in 1966 and the commencement of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band recording sessions. In 1968, Harrison travelled to Rishikesh in northern India with the other Beatles to study meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

In the summer of 1969, he produced the single "Hare Krishna Mantra", performed by the devotees of the London Radha Krishna Temple. That same year, he and fellow Beatle John Lennon met A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder - acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). Soon after, Harrison embraced the Hare Krishna tradition (particularly japa-yoga chanting with beads), became a lifelong devotee, being associated with it until his death.

Harrison was a vegetarian from 1968 until his death.

During his lifetime, Harrison bequeathed to ISKCON his Letchmore Heath mansion (renamed Bhaktivedanta Manor) north of London.

Music Album - All Things Must Pass (1970)
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After years of being restricted in his song-writing contributions to The Beatles, All Things Must Pass contained such a large outpouring of Harrison's songs that it was released as a triple album, though only two of the discs contained songs - the third contained recordings of Harrison jamming with friends.
The album is regarded as his best work; it was a critical and commercial success, topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, and producing the number-one hit single "My Sweet Lord" as well as the top-10 single "What Is Life". The album was co-produced by Phil Spector using his "Wall of Sound" approach, and the musicians included Eric Clapton, Dave Mason, Billy Preston, and Ringo Starr.

This is a BAN Films Production.

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[gauridasapandita]

This is an excellent presentation of the Beatles and George Harrison's most important music. Swami Srila Prabhupada said that the Beatles were demigods in their last lives and they came to earth to help him spread Love, Krsna Consciousness. George took to Krsna Consciousness like a duck to water. He met with Swami Prabhupada many times, sometimes with John Lennon and Bob Dylan.

I became a devotee because of George Harrison's music and the Words from Apple he wrote in the Krsna Book. I am follo

[787rocky]

Only George Harrison was Demigod and not the entire beatles.

[AaronMThomason]

It was 1960 and not 1964, Lol. That's Nirantara Prabhu singing, what's wrong with the original music?