Just like honey? Hare Krishna in Bath, England

            This guy actually approached me on the streets of Bath in an attempt to either convert me and/or get a donation towards his movement. He got neither but he did get a snap!

He told me his name is now Ameretti which he said means Nectar in Sanskrit. Hence my title which is also a homage to the 1980s Jesus and Mary Chain track. Kind of ironic - or synchronistic? - that there is Pret A Manger in the background - "ready to eat".

Ameretti is originally from Berlin in Germany and told me he has been a Hare Krishna for 4 years, and a monk for 2 of those years. Perhaps that was why he was wearing a white robe under his coat instead of the more normal orange you see them wear.

I asked him about the makeup he has on his face, and asked him if that was about the third eye area and he said in part it was, but it was more of a mark to remind him that the body was just a vessel for the soul.

He seemed surprised that I had heard of the Hare Krishna movement. I remarked that I regularly used to see them on the streets of almost every city, but they had seemingly fallen out of favour after the very public scandals surrounding their leadership/organisation along with other Eastern Swami sex and financial scandals. I asked him if he knew about that and whose lifestyle the money Hare Krishna devotees had collected allegedly really went to and he said none of it was true. He then asked me for a donation for "an orphanage" (as I had already declined to buy a book from him). I again politely declined.

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THIS IS STRANGER  NUMBER #12 in my 100 strangers project collection. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page.

Taken in: UK / England / Bath (show map)

Taken on: April 1, 2023

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Sets appears in: • Street Portrait • Somerset more » • 100 strangers • Bath, UK • Religion, Spirituality, Pagan • Street and candid « less

Groups appears in: • Street Documentary: Story, Life, Human Connection • Picturing the MALE more » • Somerset • STRANGERS! • 100 Strangers • Boys, Boys, Boys! • Smiles/Sorrisi/Sonrisas • Bath - Street Life • ☪ ✝ ☸ Religions ✡ ☬ ☯ • World of Blue • !! Street Favorites !! • Wonderful Stranger • Flickr Social • The smile - Le sourire • People with a particularly beautiful aura -Menschen mit besondes • ! with people -in colour • What is the Story? • people renmen hito « less

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