A Super Model to A Super Devotee!! Vogue Magazine Cover Model Anne Schaufuss Turned Hare Krishna

Credits: VOICE ARTIST Komal Chhabria Her YouTube Channel:-    / 37raina   MUSIC ARTIST: Akshay Chowdhary http://akshaychowdhry.com Content: https://back2godhead.com #krishna #harekrishna #Radhakrishna #radhe #radheradhe #prabhupada #back2godhead #Modelling #vogue #voguemagazine #AnneSchaufuss #Fashion --------------------------- From A Super Model to A Super Devotee! She had money, glamor, exciting work, admiring friends—but she gave it all up for Krsna. Srila Prabhupada would say to the people coming, “She gave up everything for Krishna, now you should do the same thing.” Prabhupada would be preaching like that. Anne Schaufuss has lived what most women can hardly dream. Born of an illustrious Dutch stage family, she entered the Danish Royal Ballet at age six and performed during the next ten years, until she grew too tall (5’11” by age sixteen). She went on to become Miss Denmark of 1965 and set out soon after to earn a living. Within six months her picture appeared on the cover of Vogue magazine, and that launched her career as one of Europe’s most sought-after fashion models. A million dollars and three dozen magazine covers later, Anne had wealth, fame, and apartments in most European capital cities. Anne Schaufuss had everything. Except, maybe, happiness. But that posed no problem. In her world if you didn’t have something, you sent out for it. The young woman left all makeup or jewelry. Her dress is a single piece of embroidered cotton, nine yards long, wrapped around the waist and brought over the head. Since becoming a devotee of Lord Krsna, Anne prefers the reserved appearance that a sari offers. “Women who live for the next new dress,” she says, In 1973, while flying from one modeling assignment to another, Anne met a young woman in Orly airport, Paris. She told Anne that she came from the Krsna temple, where everyone practiced bhakti-yoga devotional service to God. “I was familiar with yoga exercises,” Anne explains, “and sensed that yoga led to a superior kind of life, but I told the devotee it wasn’t really for me, since I didn’t have the time and it didn’t seem to go along with my work. She explained that bhakti-yoga was very simple and that I could do it anywhere, anytime. She gave me a book and the address of the Paris temple, and I promised to visit.” “There was a class on Bhagavad-gita going on, so I sat down with thirty or so other guests and listened to Bhagavan Goswami speak about how conflict arises from people falsely identifying themselves with their bodies: white, black, man, woman, rich, poor. The temple was located in a very elegant section of Paris, but the devotees appeared humble and unpretentious. Their clothes were simple, and everyone sat on the floor. “After the class I went to Bhagavan Goswami and told him I wanted to do yoga. ‘All you have to do is chant Hare Krsna,’ he said. He explained that the name of God is not different from God and that chanting puts one in direct contact with God through His holy name. ‘Is that all I have to do?’ I said. Actually, I wasn’t sure how that was yoga, but I saw no reason not to try.” “Chanting helped me give up bad habits. It was amazing, especially since I wasn’t trying very hard. I had been smoking since age thirteen, for example. When I started chanting Hare Krsna, I would pick up a cigarette and tell myself, ‘I’m going to smoke, but first I’m going to chant one round on my beads.’ After one round I would think, ‘No, I’m going to chant two rounds, then smoke.’ By the time I finished two rounds of chanting beads, I felt so good I didn’t need the cigarette any more. “In the beginning I chanted with a playful attitude, but after a while I discovered that the chanting had changed my vision of things. I was no longer impressed by a ride in a Rolls Royce or by seeing my picture on a magazine cover. Socializing with non-devotees became distasteful. Instead of going to parties, I would visit the Krsna temple in different countries and bring flowers for the altar. I liked the devotees’ company and always felt at ease around them.” “I used to bring girlfriends to the temple, but all it came to was rumors that my involvement with Krsna consciousness was just a publicity stunt. Finally one day I picked up the phone, called my agent, and told him to cancel all my bookings because I had decided to move into the temple.” “I did menial jobs. I washed the temple floor and made flower garlands for the altar. Then one day I cooked and everyone liked it, so for a whole year I cooked for 110 devotees.” Like the other devotees in the temple, Anne followed the strict routine of daily devotional activity. Each day she rose at 4:00a.m. to bathe and take part in morning ceremonies and classes...