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When everyone thinks of themselves, they end up all alone.

Being selfish together is not a common mission, whether you are a couple or a community.

Date: Saturday, 5th July, 2008
Location: Corner of Franklin St and Hunter St, Herston
Time: 2 pm

Please note the time: 2 pm.

The Climate Change Harinam series continues. We will chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra and dance in every single one of Brisbane's 150 suburbs.

This Saturday we are in Herston.

Please remember that we also have a weekly harinam on Fridays leaving at 4.30 pm from Govindas at 55 Elizabeth St, in the city.

Last weekend we had a one week hiatus, in order to attend the wedding of Mitul and Neesha, and do the Brisbane Yoga Festival.

We are an anachronism - out of our time. We don't fit into the current frame of reference, we jar the world view. While we make attempts to do so gently, we challenge the underpinning paradigms of the current civilization - we challenge the value structure with our own.

We are not interested in being absorbed or becoming an accepted part of it. We want to supercede it, to subsume it. However, we don't want to do this through force, but through voluntary participation of the people.

What we have to offer is indeed a higher taste, a superior way. And when people are given the chance to experience that, it acts.

Growing up in New Zealand I saw the Hare Krishnas dancing in the street. I didn't understand it, and I remember one time even mocking them with some friends (in good humour, of course). However, they did not rely on my understanding or appreciation to continue, and the Holy Name did not rely on my understanding or appreciation to act.

We must go out as a duty, every week, everywhere.

See you in the street! :-)

I mentioned that the ISKCON NA press release was getting some mileage in the Hindu press - this article points out that it might not be too hard to do:

You would think a press release about a German Nazi war criminal named Johann Bach being caught in the jungles of Goa after trying to sell a stolen 18th-century piano would be worth double-checking.

Nonetheless, the press release has been regurgitated on the front pages of the Deccan Herald and the Indian Express and inside the Telegraph, citing Perus Narkp, “the intelligence wing of the Berlin-based German Chancellor’s Core (sic)”, as the source.

Read more at Reuters.