Climate Change Harinam: Torwood

Location: Haig Rd and Payne St, Torwood
Time: 1 pm
Date: Saturday 7th June, 2008

Shave your head, go out, and chant. :-)

Or just go out and chant.

Chanting is the active principle. The shaved head and the robes are part of the overall brand identity. The Hare Krishnas - we're here to save the world in its darkest hour. We were doing it before everything fell to pieces, we'll be doing it while everything is falling to pieces, and we'll doing it amidst all the broken pieces afterwards.

Some people might say that "oh come on now - people have been predicting the end of the world as we know it for thousands of years now", and undoubtedly they have.

All macro-issues (like peak oil, competition for scarce resources, food and water shortages, and global climate change) aside - every minute of every day our life is being taken away from us. We cannot hold on to it. It's not that if we don't give our life to Krishna and His service we get to keep it.

There is nothing that we are saving ourselves for. Every day that goes by when we don't invest our life energy in the service of the Lord's mission is another day gone with nothing to show for it. It's another day down the drain. The fleeting experiences of sense gratification are flickering illusions projected onto the mental television screen of life.

Here today, gone tomorrow, with no lasting results.

Invest in your future now. No day is ever saved, they are all spent - one minute at a time. Our lives are dripping through our fingers like sand. No matter how hard we try to grasp them, they are slipping inexorably away.

Yes my friends, the end of the world is coming - for each of us.

And on that note: Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!

See you on Saturday! :-)