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Date: Saturday May 10th, 2008
Meeting point: Dornoch Terrace and Carlton St, Highgate Hill
Time: 1 pm

Sankirtan, the congregational chanting of the Holy Names of the Lord, is a timeless activity. It is recommended by all religions, and is especially mentioned in Vedic scriptures as the most powerful spiritual practice in the present age. It replaces all other forms of sacrifice, and supersedes all other forms of meditation.

Currently the planet is in deepening ecological, environmental, and social crisis. Intelligent people can see that we must address the root causes, rather than make a few adjustments to some of the symptoms.

The root cause of our problem is that we have individually and collectively forgotten that pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the primary goal of life. Once this is forgotten life becomes an out of control experience of unsatisfied desires and increasing consumption of resources.

While people remain disconnected from the Supreme, they are unable to fix the increasing problems that we are facing.

People all over the world must take seriously to glorifying the Holy Names of the Lord, and in this way solve all the problems of life at their most fundamental level.

As devotees of the Lord our function is to demonstrate this and teach it to others. Only by this process can the world be saved. There is no other way, no other way, no other way.

Not enough devotees are going on harinam, either here in Brisbane, or around the world in general.

Things are becoming very dire. If devotees do not perform sankirtan yajña on behalf of the human population it will be destroyed. Do your part for the human race.

:-)

Modern Agriculture - the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

- Albert Bartlett

The Hang Drum [wikipedia article], a melodic percussion instrument developed in Switzerland in 2000. Reminiscent of a steel drum. Check out the videos below that demonstrate its potential.

The wikipedia article above has links to two articles by the inventors, describing the physics of the drum.