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May 1-3 2010: Next stop on the tour was the capital of Croatia, Zagreb.
The devotees have constructed a beautiful three storey temple and asrama, up in the hills in the south of the city.
They gave me a third floor room with a great view of the valley:
The temple room is attractive and spacious and the Deities of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai are very beautiful:
I have been to Zagreb before and I was happy to be back. The Sunday feast was well attended, and the audience attentive as I delivered my SPLB seminar, this time on the topic of Deities.
I was told the temple has another set of Deities hidden away behind curtains at the back of the temple hall. I took a peek and saw some of the most beautiful Radha Krsna Deities anywhere in ISKCON.
They are six feet tall and have been waiting to be worshipped for several years. Wisely though the managers are waiting until they can be certain that they can maintain the demanding schedule that Their Lordships require.
One of the highlights of my visit was a trip to a local museum on May 4, to see an exhibition called “Body Revealed“.
Its an amazing display of real human bodies, sliced, diced, bisected and exposed in every possible way. It shows all the different structures and organs of the body including bones, cartilage, muscles, brain, heart, various senses, lungs, liver, reproductive, veins etc. using once-real human bodies.
Quite bizarre and very striking. Different chemicals are used to preserve specific parts of the body while other parts are stripped away. Its pretty amazing to see a body split down the middle (reminds me of the story of the killing of Jarasandha!) with the bisection exposing all the bones and organs etc.
Impressive work and I am sure Da Vinci would have been most impressed
He was known to have had dead bodies plucked from the grave yards so that he could study their structures. His drawings were of actual bodies that his men dug up fresh from burial:
The one thing that I realized is that although these cadavers were once ‘people‘, now they are just displays and the real people are not there. The bodies remain, with every aspect preserved and inspected, but where is the principle that made them “people”? That of course, was only on display in the observers.
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