Glorifying A Saintly Person

Today is the remembrance Day of the founder of the Hare Krishna movement, His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami. He left this world on this day 1977.

In our process of devotion days like today are used to celebrate Saintly people and what they have given us.

I am finding this very hard to write because to remember what an amazing personality Prabhupada is, is also to realize that He is no longer physically with us. And that is upsetting.

Prabhupada did what no other person had done before. He has given the science of Krishna Consciousness to the world. He left home at an elderly age with no possessions, travelled from India on a steam ship suffering 2 heart attacks along the way to "give us what we have forgotten"

Without Srila Prabhupada I would not know who God is, I would be lost still trying to gain happiness from my limited senses, I would have nothing. So today I will try my best to do what would please Prabhupada, to some how try and repay a small amount of the debt which I owe Him for what He has given me.

There is a video below about Srila Prabhupada and a list of links below that I urge any reader to please go to and find out a little more about the glorious person that Srila Prabhupada was and how He touched so many lives with God Consciousness.

href="http://www.iskcon.com/about/parampara/srila_prabupada.html">http://www.iskcon.com/about/parampara/srila_prabupada.html

http://www.gurudeva.ru/eng/diary/diary7-20.shtml

http://www.gurudeva.ru/eng/prabhupada/index.shtml

http://prabhupada.krishna.org/

http://www.prabhupadaconnect.com/SrilaPrabhupada.html

A Touchy Subject

I've been away for a while. I don't know why but nothing has really been inspiring me enough to write recently. Could be a number of things, but anyway.

What has got me going again could be a bit of a touchy subject. I'm not even sure of my own feelings on it but am going to say something more just to start a debate.

This week a Doctor in the UK has been sentenced to 48 ( I think ) years imprisonment for trying to induce an abortion in his lover by slipping certain pills in her drink which would kill the young fetus but not harm his lover. There where many reasons for the long sentence, which I agree with. One was attempted murder.

Now before I carry on I want to say that what this man did was verry very wrong and I think he deserves a heavier sentence.

To convict him of attempted murder though, because his lover was unaware and did not want to abort the baby, to me suggests that whether abortion is murder or not relies on whether a woman consents to the action. So what if a woman has an abortion without the consent of her husband or partner, can he claim that his unborn child has been murdered???

I don't know

I do know that I think all abortion is wrong and I would class it as murder. for sure the above ruling makes the whole issue a bit more complicated than before.

What do you think

Eradicating Poverty

" The greatest problem in this world is hunger. Not hunger of the stomach but hunger of the heart. All over the world bothe the rich and the poor are suffering. They are lonely, starving for love. Only God's love can satisfy the hunger of the heart. There is no other solution. Feeding the stomachs of the poor is not so difficult, feeding the starving hearts of humanity with God's love - that is the great challenge. You see our hearts must be pure to give that love.
Poverty is not only lack of a piece of clothing, but a lack of human dignity and the beautiful virtue of purity. Poverty is a lack of respect for one another.
When the impoverished of Calcutta die in my arms, I see the light of hope in their eyes. I do not see this light in the eyes of many of the wealthy, powerfull people of the West.
Real wealth is in the hearts of those with faith in the love of God. This world is in desperate need of those who will give the poor hearted this hope."
Mother Theresa of Calcutta
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