What does the words "gouranga" stand for on the motorway bridges and who puts them there ?
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It' a Hare Krishna thing "call out gouranga and be happy". I'd always thought it was the name of an engineering company but Wiki knows.
Ohhh Ive seen those. I think its to do with, erm those people who dress in orange, have bald heads and wonder around chanting. Harry Kristhners??
I think that it means ''be happy''? I aint sure but I think its the ''hari chrishnas'' that put them there?
If you shout the word "gouranga" you will find you are instantly happier, try it. go on.. you know you want to.
Do a Google search on the word Gouranga, it tells you all about it.
Be Happy. x
The hare krishnas' do it..In popular culture it is accepted generally as a word meaning simply 'be happy', although the literal Sanskrit translation is 'light/golden-limbed'.
I'd always believed it was tied up with the launch of a Grand Theft Auto Game.
Apparently if you wiped out a complete Hari Krishna group you got a "Gouranga Bonus"
G'day Deanobeano,
Thanks for your question.
Gouranga means "be happy" and is associated with the Hare Krishna.
Gouranga, or Gauranga, is said to originate in the Hare Krishna religious movement, whose founder, Shri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, was also called Gaura, or Gauranga. In popular culture it is accepted generally as a word meaning simply 'be happy', although the literal Sanskrit translation is 'light/golden-limbed'. Krishna is said to reappear as this name in the future.
Stickers bearing the word Gouranga or stating "Call out Gouranga and be happy!" have been appearing on bridges over motorways and railways in Scotland and the North of England. It has also appeared on public buildings over recent years, and stickers and fridge magnets with the phrase have also been handed out by Hare Krishna monks at music festivals throughout the UK, such as Glastonbury and Download.
In Grand Theft Auto, you get a Gouranga bonus for running over Hare Krishna.
I have attached some sources for your reference.
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Gouranga is a word which, so the Hare Krishna movement believe, has simply to be said to make things better.
To spread the "word" around, packs of plain-clothes Krishnas have been decorating motorway bridges and junctions with the letters, or sometimes just painted graffiti. It had bugged me for ages.
But its to do with the Hare Krishna movement and its literal meaning is "Be Happy"
Quite nice really...
....GOURANGA.
In some cities in the uk I've encountered gouranga 'monks' asking for money in return for a badge or something which says 'gouranga'. You are then encouraged to shout out Gouranga. It's part of the Hare Krishna movement. Some info below from Wikipedia. Where the money goes, I don't really know, I recall giving one of these guys a couple of quid on a walk home through the city centre whilst very drunk one evening!
Gouranga, or Gauranga, is said to originate in the Hare Krishna religious movement, whose founder, Shri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, was also called Gaura, or Gauranga. In popular culture it is accepted generally as a word meaning simply 'be happy', although the literal Sanskrit translation is 'light/golden-limbed'.
Stickers bearing the word Gouranga or stating "Call out Gouranga and be happy!" have been appearing on bridges over motorways and railways in Scotland and the North of England, (and more recently the whole of the UK) It has also appeared on public buildings over recent years, and stickers and fridge magnets with the phrase have also been handed out by Hare Krishna monks at music festivals throughout the UK, such as Glastonbury and Download.
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You would have to be 'happy' to climb out on those bridges and paint that stuff on. Seems like a major engineering feat to me and when do they do it without being noticed? Motorways are really busy 24/7.
Theres a cult called the Hari Krishnas which has been westernised out of all recognition from the original teachings. One of their teachers said 'call out gouranga and be happy', so people think that 'gouranga' means 'be happy' but it doesn't.
Its the name of one of the original teachers and means 'light, golden limbed'. So its someones name that means tanned and nimble.
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