In Video Games
- In Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (1987), Zak is approached by a Hare Krishna devotee, and sold a book called, How to Raise Your Consciousness and Lower Your Golf Scores!. This book can later be given to the guard in Katmandu to be allowed to approach a Guru, and then to an airport bum, causing him to become a devotee, himself.
- In Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) (1988), Larry Laffer approaches 2 Hare Krishna devotees in the airport, who are actually KGB agents (said to be "KGB-ishnas"). They leave the scene if Larry gives them a flower.
- In Grand Theft Auto (1997), the text "GOURANGA!" is displayed whenever the player runs over a group of Hare Krishnas, who are occasionally featured as pedestrians. They are again featured in Grand Theft Auto 2 (1999) as one of the gangs the player can work for.
- In Man Payne 3 (2012), Max Payne tells his story when he saw the police "These bastards made the NYPD look like the Hare Krishnas"
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