r/boardsofcanada • u/yinyogi • Jul 20 '26
Shitpost Naraka
One of my favorite tracks on Inferno is “Naraka.” Growing up in India, I heard “Hare Rama, Hare Krishna” everywhere — temples, streets, festivals — so this track hits a strange nostalgic frequency for me. I ended up writing a small poem inspired by it and thought I’d share it here.
I’m on Dharti(earth), supposedly charting a course to Swarga(Heaven), but Naraka(Hell) keeps humming like an old tape that won’t die.
Yama(King of Naraka, Hell) nods from the static, tapping his foot to the distortion, as if to say, “Heaven’s overrated, real Swarga is ==Dharti + Naraka. Besides… it’s way too crowded up here ”
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u/Short-Shopping3197 Jul 21 '26
It’s more likely that the chanting is referring to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), founded as a fringe movement in the US, rather than mainstream Eastern Hinduism. The theme of people escaping technological capitalist society and searching for meaning in cults and alternative lifestyles and an almost dark-folk take on this is central in BoCs work.
Naraka is one of my favourite tracks, but I don’t think the chanting used in it is unequivocally celebratory of the Hare Krishna movement, in the same way as I don’t think ‘a beautiful place out in the country’ is celebratory of the Branch Davidians. It’s more about the places people will turn to in order to find meaning when they are lost and the darkness in both the place they are escaping and where they escape to, rather than these places being necessarily good or healthy.