Kṛṣṇa Conscious Fete for Walter Reuther's Daughter
Krsna Conscious Fete for Walter Reuther's Daughter
Everyone who attended had the highest praise for the Vedic wedding of Lekhasravanti dasi (Elisabeth Luise Reuther, daughter of the late labor leader Walter Reuther) and Bhūsaya dasa (Bruce Dickmeyer) at ISKCON's fifty-five-room Detroit center, the former Lawrence P. Fisher mansion. Best man was Ambarisa dasa (Alfred Brush Ford, the great-grandson of automobile magnate Henry Ford).
The ceremony featured a Vedic fire sacrifice and chanting of ancient hymns and mantras. In addition, each of the two hundred guests received a garland of Hawaiian flowers, and at the end of the ceremony fragrant flower petals showered the newlyweds.
Bhūsaya and Lekhasravanti plan to stay active in the Detroit center's preaching programs, and they spoke briefly about the wedding and their involvement in the Krsna consciousness movement. Bhūsaya noted that fewer and fewer of today's young people regard marriage as a sacred obligation. Then he said, "We would like to show that if you put Krsna (God) at the center of your married life, you'll have a harmonious, lasting family situation that grows in meaning. Lekhasravanti and I decided that we could help each other advance in Krsna consciousness and also help others see how a married couple can cooperate for spiritual progress."
"My father was always talking about human dignity," Lekhasravanti observed. "So in one sense Bhūsaya and I are working for the same goal: awakening people to a higher awareness of themselves. But we want people to know that they're really spiritual beings." Explaining the wedding's opulence, Lekhasravanti said, "We don't try to attract attention to ourselves-we do everything nicely, just to please Krsna."
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