Leaders Helpless as Drought Devastates USA

On 13 July 2012 CNN reported on its website: "Authorities have declared more than 1,000 counties as natural disaster areas as the worst drought in a quarter-century spreads across the United States this summer."

The leaders are helpless to end the drought. They do not realize that drought is natural when the citizens do not engage in sankirtan yajna, the congregational chanting of the holy names of God. If they would just take our advice and organize massive daily sankirtan in every town and village, the drought will quickly come to an end. But because they do not take our advice the population suffers.

Drought Causes a Shrinking Lake
Wooly Hollow State Park, Arkansas USA

Leaders Helpless as Drought Devastates USA

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Is there Faith in the Three Modes?

I have a question. Is faith in three modes? I mean is there faith in the mode of goodness, faith in the mode of passion, and faith in the mode of ignorance?

Your servant

Ankit Vora

Answer: Perfect Faith is Beyond the Three Modes

Krishna clearly describes the three kinds of faith in Bhagavad-gita 17.4:

"Men in the mode of goodness worship the demigods; those in the mode of passion worship the demons; and those in the mode of ignorance worship ghosts and spirits."

In this connection Srila Prabhupada gives the example of a man in Calcutta who during World War II worshipped Adolph Hitler because thanks to the war he had been able to amass a great deal of wealth by dealing in the black market. Also in this connection I personally met a gentleman in Bangalore, India who did puja to the cartoon character Dennis the Menace. So there are definitely different kinds of faith practiced for different purposes. In conclusion, those who are actually wise repose all of their faith in the process of completely surrendering themselves at the lotus feet of the Lord. This is the perfection of faith. Such faith is in pure goodness beyond the material modes of goodness, passion, and ignorance.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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