Relegating the World's Water Woes to the History Books

For years the rapidly vanishing supply of fossil fuel has been a matter of grave concern for a world society which is becoming more and more dependent on it for its daily functioning. But now a new shortage is becoming more and more of a problem: the shortage of water. It wasn't that long ago that the entire world functioned quite well without fossil fuel depending on ox power and horse power. But when in history has the world functioned well without water? A recent study has revealed that one-third of the world population now faces some form of water shortage. And along with water shortage comes desertification. More and more once fertile land is now becoming transformed into desert.

So what is the solution? That easy solution is given by Lord Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita:

annād bhavanti bhūtāni
parjanyād anna-sambhavaḥ
yajñād bhavati parjanyo
yajñaḥ karma-samudbhavaḥ

"All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced from rains. Rains are produced by performance of yajña [sacrifice], and yajña is born of prescribed duties." Bhagavad-gita 3:14

If we can introduce sankirtana-yajña, the congregational chanting of the holy names of God, on a wide scale, there will naturally be sufficient rainfall all over the world and the world's water woes will be nicely relegated to the history books. Scholars will then study that time when the world's population was misguided by foolish leaders and unnecessarily suffered so many varieties of difficulties.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

One third of the world population is currently facing an ever-increasing water shortage. When will it hit you? Better do something now before it is too late.Water shortage

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Why Japa Beads?

When we chant (Japa), is there any special significance to using the Japa beads?

Thank you for your time.

Your Aspiring devotee

Uttara

Answer: Greatly Enhanced Chanting

The chanting beads greatly enhance the meditational quality of chanting the holy names of God. For one thing they bring another one of the senses into the meditational experience, namely the sense of touch. Also the great acharyas have prescribed that we must chant as a minimum a set number of repetitions of Krishna's holy names every day in order to derive sufficient spiritual strength for conquering over all material desires and reviving our original and eternal spiritual identities as servants of Krishna. The chanting beads enable us to count how many times we utter Krishna's names so we can make sure that we have covered our minimum daily chanting quota.

At the time of initiation the spiritual master chants on our beads to sanctify them. When we chant on our initiation beads we derive direct blessings from our spiritual master via the medium of our japa beads. Touching our beads is non-different from touching his lotus feet.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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