Save
the Planet Foundation
The source that nourishes a garden is its soil. If
the compost is rich with nutrients, an abundance of life can take root and grow.
Similarly the source that nourishes a community is its people. The diversity of
talent, compassion, and dedication found among those involved in this project
combine; emerge the strongest roots of a very special kind
community.
By promoting;
Natural
Living
Natural
medicine
Solar
technology
Organic
Gardening
Eco-Villages
Regional
Production
Conservation
of eco-systems
Cultural
diversity.
Saving
the planet
Spirituality
Poetry
Social
Evolution
Peace
Our environment is getting polluted at a high rate, We have to carefully find
a new approach to life, since we are becoming a society fully dependable on a
industry that is basically depleting cultures, indigenous lives and the natural
eco-systems, that sustain, preserve and make this world a self-sustainable home
for everyone.
please help to save the
planet
Save the planet is a non-profit organization in the making
designed to increase humanities level of awareness. The goal is to create a
peace oriented brotherhood on earth through role modeling healthy lifestyles;
lifestyles which are sustainable, innovative and environmentally conscious. Any
one is welcome to become an active member in this project.Those who wish to
donate land to create an eco-village, or goods that can be traded to trade some
more and make this planet a safe place for everyone.
Old civilizations make their world
with a natural beautiful architecture that still standing in
many parts of the world today. The modern world is now but a shadow of what it
was yesterday!
The Universe
is a home
for everything within;
galaxies
solar systems
and planets,
therefore!
we are related
to all species
kingdoms
and origins.
The Universe
is
a
Living
Entity,
and
is
breathing........
Did you forgot that today
is a global gardening holiday?
The environment,,
the planet
and
us
are
the same.
Welcome
to
the
planet
This is where
you live
reproduce and
die.
During this
time
you will
experience,
the
light,
to
perfection
by:
self-realization
and
enlighnment.
Love.
the
planet.
The Universe is a home for everyone.
That is galaxies, solar
systems and planets; therefore we are related to all species, kingdoms and
origins. The earth in which we live is a living organism and that which we do
affect to all species, therefore we must carefully approach the way we live,
think and relate to ourselves and the natural habitat in which we all live. The
environment is getting polluted at a high rate, the pollution, combustion and
destruction of the world natural resources are being exhausted at a high rate.
We have to carefully find a new approach to live, since we are becoming a
society that is basically depleting cultures, indigenous life, and the
natural eco-systems, that sustain, preserve and make this world a
self-sustainable home for everyone.
The earth is one of a
kind, and all of its riches is a world patrimony that deserves a better
awareness for the good of human kind, the earth the environment and us are
intrinsically depending on one another, for the preservation of all species, and
the natural world within. Peace on earth.
The
planet
EARTH,
is
a living entity.
It is moving
trough space
at 79,000
thousand miles an hour,
in a day the
earth has traveled
1896000.miles.
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All this
makes us
a lot less
small
as living
species,
to the
physical
capacity,
of how much
we can
displace
trough
the surface,
air,
or
space,
in our physical bodies.
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The
environment balance
of the
earth is
very
fragile, and
fragmental
to sustain
itself.
It is
continuously renovating itself
to make the
abundance
of life that
is sprouting.
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We can see
this in ourselves
it takes a
very small
change in the
weather
to make us
hot or cold
a pinch of a
nettle to make the skin
rush, and the
emotional and physical
pain that we
feel is very tangible,
the out
side environment is very
harsh, every
thing that exist is protected
by a layer of
protective skin:
we see that
in ourselves, trees, fruit,
and animals,
without this layer, decay
occur rapidly
due to the harsh environment of nature.
The
earth bio-ecological balance is a very delicate
environment
for all of us to exist.
with all
this, the industrial pollution being created is depleting
the ozone
layer of the earth.If this continue to happen as its been for the last hundred
years, primarily with burning of fossil fuels, mining, destruction of rain
forest, pollution of oceans, and the stop of rivers flow toward oceans by dams,
there is little time to save ourselves, from imminent destruction.
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The ozone
layer is the earth's womb
that sustain all the bio-logical
life on
earth.
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This physical
body
of
ours,
is,
contained
within
the physical
parameters
of the
natural laws created by the
universe on
earth.
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Thus the
environment
created by
the earth
is
harmonically in balance
for all
species to co-exist;
in a
fashion,
that
evolution,
is a
creation,
sustain,
and
destruction.
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The nature
created
by
the
universe
is
harmonically
in
balance
with the
movements
of all the
planets in our solar system.
Thus human
kind
is
within
this
marvelous
creation.
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Because we
are the earth
what we doing
to ourselves
we doing
it to the earth.
If we pollute
ourselves,
we
pollute
the
earth.
If we create
wars,
and
kill people
we are
killing the earth.
If we are
taking from
other people
what is
in their
land,
and kill
them
and charge
them
for a war
that is
purely
arbitrarily
wrong
is
colonizing
the
diversity
that is
rightfully
their
own.
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The profit
of
science
&
technology
is
killing
the planet.
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Governments
are not
representing
its citizens
best interest
because,
we are living
in a world
run by
international
corporations,
profiting
from the
consumptions
of its
citizens.
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If we
were
living
fairly
good,
the
earth
would
be
a
magnificent
paradise.
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It is very
important to change, the planet is been eating alive, natural
resources are being depleted, and human consumption multiplying at a high rate.
It is important equal responsibility, to accept that the planet is coming
to a stall due to the habits being created by modern society. Other
wise is not worthwhile living in this planet, with a notion
that, how life is being evolving is perfect. This evolving of
comfort establishment by international corporations is making
consumers a human merchandise.
We are independent entities, with an independent
sentient knowledge of the universe, were we all are at our best, in this human
form. This world is a celestial sphere were we are acknowledging GOD. .
*
natural living is as simple as nature
There is
only
one
earth
one
universe
one
love.
From
this
love,
sprout
our very
beings.
In every single
grain of soil
there is
love,
in every
drop
of
water,
there is
love,
in
every
seed
that
germinates
there is
love,
in
the
air
in the
fire
in
the
water
in
the
earth.
in every
movement
in every
thought
in every
action,
that we do
there
is
love,
in
every
insect,
in
every
animal.
Love
exist
in
all
species
kingdoms
and
origins.
Love
loves
love.
Love
is
the
very
essence
of
the
universe,
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Man does
know?
What ails you?
is it the need
of alchemy
to transform
alcoholic
beverages
unto Aristotelian
aphrodisiac?
or
is it
the need
to sail the
seven seas
in search
of beautiful
mermaids
nipples?
don't
be afraid
to transform
yourself
into a bull
and fall
in red love.
The arvor vitae
manifest
itself
when you ready.
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The
universe is looking trough your eyes
I
am
I
live
I
exist
I
am
a
living
organism
exploding
unto
millions
of
colors
into
the
blackness
of
nothingness.
*
Is
the soil
What will
it take
to
humanity
to open
its
eyes
and
discover
that
the most
precious
thing
is
the soil
under
its
feet.
*
In less
than
a
hundred
years
man
has dug
its
doom.
In another
hundred
man
as we know
it
will be
a rare
creature.
*
But
some
of us
believe
that
life
still
peachy.
I think
is true.
*
War War
Wars
what more we
need.
is there
anything we
need
more
that wars,
war for
breakfast
terrorism
for
lunch
and
human
merchandise
for dinner.
**
We
would like to tell you, why we need to save the planet.
Because we belong to the planet,
the
planet does not belong to us.
The planet gives us
life,
we didn't give life to
the planet.
And
because,
the planet is a wonderful place for everyone
to live.
That
happens,
by the grace of
the creator, we all are here.
We need to save
the planet
because
this
planet
is
beautiful
and
we
all
live
here.
And
because
there
is
not
another
planet
where
we all
could
live
in the
galaxy.
This planet is one of a kind.
The earth
has creating
us
specifically
for all
of
us
to live
on
this
planet.
The size of the earth,
gives us all the specifications of height and shape to all human species,
specifically for all of us to exist in this planet.
If we
could exist on another planet, the specification, to live on that planet would
according to the size and "gravity" of that planet would make us aliens. Not
mention that hard rash environment on that planet would make human life a
nightmare.
So why we wouldn't rater
all get along and make peace to all species.
But
we must make peace with ourselves.
The planet is in big
danger of human extinction because our environmental pollution.
The pollution in the
environment is anything that has altered from its natural state to an unnatural
state,for example oil into plastic or rubber, when this is burn it creates a
pollution very hard to the environment to digest.
If you
know,
what have we
done
to the
environment
what would you
do?
Well,
The pollution train is
rolling
Effects of Used
Oil. 
Dumped used
oil pollutes!
Used oil
dumped in the ground or down drains pollutes, causing soil and water pollution.
Such oil may enter the food chain harming wildlife, and eventually affecting
human health!
- The high concentration
of metal in used oil can be toxic e.g. lead, zinc, barium, phosphorous,
sulphur and magnesium.
- Certain compounds in
used oil such as polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), can be very dangerous to
health, some even causing cancer.
- Some of the additives
used in lubricants can also contaminate the environment.
- Other contaminants
accumulate in oil during use such as fuel, antifreeze/coolant, water, wear
metals, metal oxides and combustion products.
- One gallon of used oil
can pollute million gallons of fresh water.
- If disposed of in a
water body or soil, waste oil can block oxygen from reaching micro-organisms
that are supposed to decompose it into non hazardous compounds.
What can you
do?
It is vitally important you do not dump used oil or put it down
drains.
All you have to do is place your
used oil in a collection tank at your
local participating service station. The used oil is then taken away by
Environmental Systems to an environmentally friendly recycling
plant.
How
is used oil recycled?
The oil industry in Botswana has joined forces
to combat the potentially serious environmental hazard posed by used oil. A
collection service has now been formed for all oil users, large or small, to
participate in.
Environmental Systems, a citizen-owned
company, is paid by the oil companies to collect oil from small and medium users
such as garages, workshops and do-it-yourself mechanics.
The oil companies have also arranged to
collect used oil from their large customers such as the Botswana Defence Force
and the Central Transport Organisation.
All the used oil is delivered to an
environmentally friendly recycling plant.
What is used
oil?
Used oil is any oil that has become contaminated as a result of
its usage e.g. lubricants (engine, turbine or gear), hydraulic fluids, metal
working fluids, insulating fluids and coolants.
Waste oil is any oil that has become
contaminated prior to its intended use e.g. crude oil spills, oily sludge at the
bottom of storage tanks and oily wastes from refineries.
This initiative collects used oil only
i.e. oil contaminated through its usage. We do not collect used oil polluted
with solvents, cleaning fluids or other hazardous wastes.
Authorised waste
disposal companies should handle the disposal of these wastes.
Any person found guilty of
dumping used oil which pollutes the environment shall be liable to a fine not
exceeding $14, 000 and/or imprisonment for a maximum of 10 years. Refer to the
Awareness Strategy for more details.
This what we have
done to the environment, in the last hundred years.
The invention of cars,
around the world start making pollution of carbon monoxide, this gas
exaust have a very pungent toxin to the environment.
In the 1900s The
industrial revolution was pogresing at a hight rate and a very ineresting
phenomenon was happening. Same it did hapen around the world, and more
specifically in Mexico.
Land lords were taken
small farmers land and buying them, then small farmers
become peasants, working for the Land lords, which in turn land lord
provide them with housing and grocery store, basically becoming
slaves.
Well my friend belive it
or not! With all this DEMOCRACY around the planet
In the last hundred
years, have evolved unto a killing machine!
Then Farmers land lords,
Industrial land lords, technocratas lords, Aristocratechnocrats lords, And the
consumercrats lords, and of course
the military
mafia
has made
this planet
unbearable
to
live.
and if you really
care about it!
What would you
do!
Practice
peace
LOVE BEARS ALL
THINGS
This letter is from a
friend of mine in search of spiritual wisdom.
hello family!
I'm sitting in a one-computer
internet cafe with a
computer from maybe ten years ago on a connection
of
similar likeness. So the aperture through which I wish
the extend my
affection is a little constrained in the
sense that it takes about fifteen
minutes to read 5
emails, and longer to write that many. Anyway, I
am
saying this in an attempt to direct your attention to
your heart and
maybe accompany that with a thought,
"oh here he is right in my heart sending
me good
tidings and fruitful fanfare", I mean I could report
some news on
my activities but I prefer to share my
internal realization. Practically
that's counter
productive since communication through script in
glowing
terminals isn't generally attributed with any
special qualities as a medium
for heart to heart
transaction but HERE I AM... I've been over here
for
about two weeks, the plane ride was comfortable, the
roads aren't that
scary, the water hasn't made me sick
and the food is definitely spicy but not
a problem in
any way (except maybe nutritionally since I've seen a
green
leaf on my plate the whole time I've been here,
but potatoes and rice
literally 2 sometimes 3 times a
day isn't weird after a little while.) Almost
all
little kids and many adults unabashedly stare at me
when I walk down
the street and I have to be alert
since about every 30 seconds or so some
calls Hare
Krishna! or Haribol! and expect me to smile, bow or call
back
or something. But it made me think, or yeah and
any time you go into a place,
stores or whatever, you
take off your shoes. it made me think,
American
culture is so impersonal, that something I've felt and
tried to
creatively reverse in my wanderings though
our not so great nation but now
I'm over here and I
see how much its ingrained in me. Suppose you went
to
the super market and someone greeted you at the door
took you shoes to
a rack and then guided through the
store giving you there advice on
bulk/brand beans and
which avocados or whatever, that would be a
very
personal experience. Here its pretty much like that
translated into
Indian, indian I don't know what to
call it, but I find myself forgeting
that. I went out
to get some batteries the other day and I go up to
this
little stand and say,"battery, battery" and the
guy looked at me with the
most innocent look, my
feeling from it was he was vibing me, "hey I'm
a
person lets greet eachother and establish a little
friendly relationship
before i get you what you need,
slow down buddy" so i'm trying to imbibe
that, slower
more personel vibe. I went to Darjeeling for a day
last week,
you have to hire a SUV to drive you over
this raod that like highway 17 or 92
gone down to one
or one and half lanes, rutted pavement throughout,
really
rutted gravel train crossings, and loads of
pedestrians, bicycles,
motorcycles, and SUV with like
10 people inside and two more standing on the
bumper
holding on to the roof rack. oh and everyone is
rushing...but the
vibe is different. so i'm sitting in
the middle row of one of these SUVs with
f people and
one little kid in my row and the rest of the car is
equally
packed, the car trip was like 3 hours each
way, and we're out in the middle
of the trip, (this is
like where the great ganges basin meets the
himalyanam
footh ills, this is like the first road heading into
the
himalayan in north bengal on the east side of
india, and right in the middle
of the trip, the paid
drive and his helper that just hands on the back
of
the SUV in the rain like the whole time! they stop at
this little tiny
roadside shop and sit down, they seem
to know the people, and just start
eating a big lunch,
they eat for like 20 mintues or more and then get
back
in the car and keep going. None of the 10+ passenger
said anything or
acted impatient or anything, it was
just totally chill for these dudes to
visit their
friends and eat lunch while we all waited and had paid
for the
trip. How cool is that! I liked it. and
riskshawalas that a whole other
story, maybe next
time. oh yeah if you need to pay for something there
is
not change random people will come by snach your
money walk halk a block any
and change it and bring it
bakc for you, they might not even really say
anything,
and that totally normal, how cool is that! it kind of
just feel
like a big old dirty (it rain like every day
so everything is muddy all the
time), goofy, cross
cultural family with a certain amount you just have
to
see. ANy way, my first experience when i got here was
a drive through
Calcutta just after dark and my first
impression of calcutta was burning man,
meets a
compost pit, meets an early american industrial city,
all tinged
with cigarette smoke and Durgadevi (maya,
tara, kali, mother godess, material
energy, illusiory
potency) worship. ok i'm later for lunch so that
what
has sprung from my mind at this time. that all
external, cultural
type stuff which you may find
interesting but I'll also add that none of that
is why
I came here, what I'm here for or the real substance
of my
experience. Krsna consciousness, or at least my
experience with it, makes all
these things, the
experience of this sort of stuff i'm describing, like
a
sublime, goofy walk through a tacky museum, real
beauty, truth proper, as far
as my heart has lead me
is far most subtle than all this, it approached
with
the mood of faith, dedication and affection. So
everywhere the
environment is teaching us somehting,
listen to your heart and really try to
feel what it is
teaching you, everything is consciously arranged, so
surf
that wave and your heart will begin to sproat and
feel somehting, well i'm
not here to imply that I have
any real spiritual realization, but something
will
come, and if you run in that direction it will come
like the
flood...
My mind's travels on Oct. 1 around noon,
Love is the undercurrent
of all realities and all
relationships...
oh yeah and check out the what's
new section at
www.scsmath.com, I've already got one update on there
and I
should be putting more stuff on there as events
unfold
Hare Krsna (blessed
love)
John Cameron McKeon
Kamal Krsna
Das
Today October 17-2005, I receive
this letter from my friend Kamal Krishna which he is in India traveling in
search of perfection.
I was writting this email and was well into it when some came
and accidentally closed the browser I was using, yesterday I wrote and email for
over and hour and then the power went out and it was lost. That kind of what its
like over here, practical dealings are subject to a high degree of uncertainty.
But its nice, in this unexpected way. It feels a lot more like a family, the
whole vibe just has more of a sympathetic, less competitve type thing. But I do
get stared at, its kind of hard to get used to. I was riding the bus to Kolkata
the other day and the seats spaced much tighter than US buses and I was in the
very back corner of this smokey bus taking up lots of space cause my legs just
don't fit. The bus got really full and all the guys in my row where giving me
the, why are you taking up so much room vibe and I tried t give the what can I
say I'm a big awkward American look but I dn't think they were pickin' up what I
was puttin' down. One guy starts asking me what I'm doing in India and I try
using the Bengali words I know and he tells me he doesn't understand my english.
I just laugh and aplogize and then it starts raining really hard and the bus
leaks heavily and i'm in the corner with all this water coming the window and I
pull out a gumpcha (a bright colored plaid towel, sheet sort of thing really
common over here) and hold it over my head to absrob the water and my shirt is
all wet and I'm taking up all the room and its really bumpy and you can't sleep
and everyone is staring at me and... I just had to laugh. It was so funny to
me.
Every time I go out of the temple and into a town or city I
feel like I'm in this silly museum, all the people and the busyness and the bad
smells, there funny to me like a dinosaur exhibit or something. What can I
say.
Last evening I was at aroti ( chanting and dancing in
congregation which happens every sunrise, noon and sunset, you could think out
it as beauty making more of itself and distributing that to anyone in ear shot,
a beautiful glorification of beauty itself, I could go on and on...) so aroti
was lead by Siddhanti Maharaj. He's this old American guy in his mid-sixties who
has been arund forever, he was the president of the second ever Hare Krsna
temple out side of India which happended to be in Haight Asbury in 1967-69.
Anyway he's like 6'5'' and really skinny and he does this awkward head bang knee
bend stiff guy trying to groove sort of move when he fires up the kirtan but
somehow or other it works. Right next to him is the really funny little old
bengali guy, maybe 5'4'', who hyper-emphasizes the first beat of every verse and
the two of them start vibin' off eachother and the kirtan goes into over drive
and whenever Siddhanti Maharaj tries t wind it down this little bengali holy man
pistol, up at three am type just won't let him. I doubt anyone in the crowd even
noticed this little non-berbal diologue but I was just diggin on it. I though it
was hysterical. How have these two characters been brought together in such a
harmonious, humorus way? How universal is music and the search for truth and
meaning in life? The truth in the heart supercedes all material differences,
thats what I see there and thats what I'm learning over here. So many of these
life long bengali swamis are so affectinate and accomadating, they come by and
ask me if want an extra sweet ball or half glass extra water, little
affectionate things that just make you melt. Iam thinkning affection is the
bottom line of all commmunication, its presence and absence is really the
substance of human interaction. Thats somethnig I'm coming to but I also think
about how hard my heart is and how difficult it is for me to even want to be
affectionate in all my dealings but I think thats the goal, to just exist
in this plane of affection, its presence, exchange, generation,
distribution, just live and work in an affection factory.
No much is reliable over here so I'm sorry I'm not sending
more info or have the facility to personalize things really so I hope you excuse
my inability to live up to my own ideal I've just discussed.
I'm sorry.
October 31-2005
Sometimes the
question may come into your mind, how
did I get here? Be it
circumstance, feeling, thought,
confusion, suffering, excitement, etc.
sometimes I
find myself look back through what I can recollect of
my own
life, which I am thinking is not really that
much in the scope of how much
experience I really had
in total, but, sometimes I'm trying to search
back
through the files and find some thread some, current,
what is it that
can be found throughout the whole
cabinet and what is only specific to a
few
chapters...you know this sort of thinking I'm
referring to. We'll this
sort of data search run in
the computer inside my skull the other morning as
I
gently wiped clean the fungal infection I've developed
in the crevices
between multiple pairs of my toes (I
am thinking they are there because it
rains everyday
and no one wears shoes in a temple so my feet are wet
for
some length of time each day, which leaves them
susceptible to infection) as
the rain beat down on my
umbrella during my 2:30 to 3:30am shift of
temple
night watch (local thieves have been stealing from
buildings and
collection boxes here as of late so some
arrangement has been made to protect
"the Lord's
property" as we residents like to think of it.)
Anyway, I do
laps around the temple compound at that
time assuming I don't just snooze
through the two
alarms I put right next to my head. So its raining
quite
hard and I'm just strolling around chanting and
making sure I don't step on
the frogs all over the
place and some quandery come to mind, how did I
get
here? I must say the mood was very sweet though, it
was giggly, a long
slow buildup of gentle,
heart-filled exuberance. I flashed through many of
the
ways I've previously thought, the values I've held,
these sort of
internal dispositions sometimes more and
sometimes less visible to people you
associate with
depending on the living quality of their vision of
you, or
how much they want you to be who they like,
and maybe less or more of who you
are (that also
considering the viewed individual is also sailing
along
that same continuum him/herself.) So some
experience came, there's no grand
point to this
story/reverie just maybe a hand raised for
the
self-discovery committee, making its presence known
here in the land
of external attractions and socialize
'til you question nothing
culture.
Sorry, I'm actively trying to leave out any sort of
preachy,
within the domain of conscious faith, sort of
writing here because my strong
feeling is that any
talk of that nature has no/repelling effect
unless
someone is seeking to hear it so I am thinking to
confine what I
say to cultural and social domains and
discuss things that may only very
lightly or indirect
question the way someone reading this may think,
feel,
etc. But I'm feeling compelled to give some indication
at least of
the shadow of those things I am
experiencing and think and feeling, etc. here
but I
must say it is becoming fewer and further between to
find
things I can say honestly, meaningfully and
pleasingly (considering the
inverse "definition" I
sort of gave earlier). There is a verse in
the
Upanishads teaching one how to make harmony in their
relationships, it
says something along the lines of:
Always speak the truth
Always speak
what it pleasing
Never speak the truth which is not pleasing
But never
speak something pleasing which is untrue
So this is a recipe for harmony and
a acute reader
will see that this verse implies the existence of
a
gradation in truth, that there are planes of truth
existing
simultaneously without "contradiction". So I
am thinking of concentric
circles, (ripples in water
from a tossed pebble) and thinking the center,
the
axis bold as love, is the infinite truth and radiating
out from that
are gradations of truth, though in a
more watered (ha ha) down form, but
fully true none
the less.
So I am speaking from the crest of some ripple,
how
close or far from the axis bold as love is that
current crest, I'm not
even sure myself but I must say
that the axis is alive and therefore it is
ever fresh,
just as novel ripples radiate out from the center
again and
again. (I cordially invite you to consider
this point outside the
context of time, only if you
are inclined to do so however.) So this platform
from
which I can speak in this way is becoming more distant
from the
center, by constitution but also by my own
endeavor. So some pain is in my
heart, maybe that is
coming through, through to you, sort of like
two
prisoners walking past each other both in chains lead
by guards. Or
maybe like a strange person waving to
you outside your house in the heavy
rain, what is he
doing? why? what is he trying to tell me? does he want
me
to come out there? Surely, its not the safest,
smartest, thing to be out
there in weather like this
but...he must have some sort of purpose. I don't
know.
Well, I guess I'll...
Sorry, maybe that's too plain and indirectly
violent
but some fading of the stars is coming here, some
withdraw and
dissolution as it may/will appear from an
onlookers
perspective.
----and----
Sweetness, Ecstacy, Affection, Love!
Reality the
Beautiful!
How soaked in hot liquid sweetness is
"experience"
itself. I do laundry by hand over here in a bucket so
I'm
ringing things out a lot, ringing big long sheets
(dhotis) out and so much
water comes of just one of
them, what to speak of the Supreme Reality.
Reality is
soaked, its wet, its drenched, its coated, its
pervaded,
permeated, predominated...on and on...in
what...in affection, beauty and
sweetness, so much you
literally cry and melt and feel best inching along
the
floor and apologizing perpetually...
its!...its!...its!... it is
sufficient to attract you
to come alone.
I'm sorry, you've caught me
feeling a bit "drunk"
Kamal Krsna Das
Cam(eron)
Ok I wrote all that
like a week ago and now that I
read it I'm a little shy to send it but
I ask you to
please just see it as representitive of a moment
in
time in the world or mortality, nothing to make much
to do about. I
didn't send it before because that
fungal infection I mentioned got pretty
bad and I
couldn't really walk and had to go to the doctor and
get some
prescription and so on and so forth. A trip
to the internet cafe faded in
priority and we also
held a major festival at our temple in Navadvip
this
past week so there was much to do (though I was pretty
unhelpful in
the preparations) so I just ran the
bookstore we have when all the pilgrims
were here,
that way way I wouldn't need to move around really.
There are
some photos on the internet (scsmath.com) of
the festival (Srila Bhakti
Raksak Sridhar Dev-Gosvami
Maharaj Vyasa Puja) and I'm in a couple of
the
pictures (I doubt you'd notice me though, I'm sitting
next to a pillar
in all white with a orange flower
garland on). Anyway I'm not important. At
the moment
I'm in Kolkata and I'm headed for Vrndavan this
afternoon (just
a 17 hour train ride). Vrndavan is
out in central India not far
from Dehli and I'll
probably spend a week or so out there. This is
the
major festival season there and we are opening a brand
new temple so
there will also be an inaguration
festival. This morning I was up here
Gurudev speak and
he told a story of when he was a young brahmacari
(a
person living in an asram around our my age or so) and
he was being
challenged by some college student.
Gurudev said he picked up a grain of dust
and said,
"Your scientist teacher can tell everything about this
piece of
dust, he knows everything inside it?" The
college kid said, "well, no" and
Gurudev said, "Well
everything is infinite, coming from infinite and
going
to infinite, why you are not interested in the
designer of the
infinite?" Then the college kid
scowled and muttered, "Oh you crazy people
from the
Gaudiya Math! (That basically means 'the Hare Krsna's'
if you
translated that into American culture). Anyway
it was told in a humorous mood
and I just throw that
in because I can't at all properly explain what
is
Vrndavan so I will cop out and just say Vrndavan is a
"transcendental
magical forest" where every particle
of dust is cintamani (conscious and
affectionate)(to
say the least) (its the land where Krsna was born
and
lived and loved so to speak). So anyway I can't even
remotely conceive
my fortune but I find myself here
none the less. Pure Harmony,
all-accomodating Beauty,
cannot be checked by any turn of events in this
world
and that is the shelter which can weather any storm. I
ask to to
please accept my apology for any
displeasing, unwelcomed, boring,
disagreeable thing I
may have spoken here and remember I don't know how
to
properly be friends, I am trying to learn (and you are
very patient
with me.)
Cameron
Kamal Krsna Das
