Climate Change Harinam

In Brisbane, Australia: Meet outside Govindas, 55 Elizabeth St, at 8 pm. We'll finish at around 12.30 am. We usually do a circuit of the city and head over to Southbank.

See you there!

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Where: Corner of Ada St and Beatrice St, Taringa
When: 2 pm, Sunday December 21
Why: It's the yuga dharma!

Rising acidity in oceans and accelerating wind patterns may lead to unexpected changes.

Global warming of the sea is affecting the atmosphere and ocean in subtle ways, adding a new dimension to the concept of global change.

As carbon dioxide accumulates in the air, more of it dissolves into the sea. This gradually increases sea-water acidity. Biologists have been concerned about what this could do to corals and other animals that have adapted to live in fairly constant marine conditions. Now scientists also have to take account of changes to seawater chemistry....

According to the MBARI announcement, its research team estimates “that sound already may travel 10 percent farther in the oceans than it did a few hundred years ago.” The team projects that by midcentury, sound may travel as much as 70 percent farther than it does today.

- Warming seas create a massive chemistry experiment, CS Monitor

This Sunday there is no Climate Change Harinam, but stayed tuned for details of an exciting series of Harinams in the city before Christmas.

The Christmas shopping season, although muted this year by the massive financial meltdown, is an important concentration of people and energy in the city. We will be there to take advantage of this gathering to share the gift of Love of God.

The premise of the Climate Change Harinam is simple. In a single sentence it is this:

If it has a postcode, it gets a harinam - until the last one has heard.

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the greatly merciful embodiment of divine love of God, has said: "In every town and village My name will be chanted".

In terms of the practical application of this instruction - I'm sure I got this from Krpamoya Prabhu's blog, but I can never find the reference: an early English preacher (perhaps Wesley) said, when delineating his preaching strategy: "If it is big enough to have it's own post office, it is big enough to have a church".

In the same way, we believe that if an area is significant enough to have its own postcode, it qualifies as a "town or village". In this way our interpretation of this instruction of Mahaprabhu is that we must visit every postcode within our local geographical area and perform harinam sankirtan, the congregational chanting of the Holy Names.

In this way we fulfil the Lord's order to "patrol about town" (as described by Bhaktivinode Thakura in his song Ajñal Tal: prabhura ajñay bhai, mage ei bhiksa - bolo krishna bhajo krishna koro krishna-siksa).

We must walk the streets of our local environment and reclaim it for the Lord, sharing the gift of Love of Godhead given by Mahaprabhu. Only this can change the course of history from its present date with doomsday for the human race...

Harer Nama Harer Nama Harer Nama eva kevalam - The Chanting of the Holy Name is the Only Way!

param vijayate sri krishna sankirtanam!

Until the last one has heard,
- Sitapati

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Location: Halford St and Newstead Tce, Newstead
Time: 2pm
Date: Sunday November 23, 2008

This is the technique I use for protecting my wedding ring and car key while on harinam and playing the mrdanga. It's a carabiner that I got from Mitre 10, a hardware store.

Vrajadhama das played accordion on this harinam.

Ram Kumar prabhu came also.

Yoga is increasing in popularity.

It's a mercantile place.

Yoga is big in Teneriffe.

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Date: Sunday November 16
Time: 2 pm
Location: Walker Ave (Macquarie St end), Teneriffe

Here's the way to make a real change - go to every single suburb in your city and chant the Holy Names! Every town and village. If it has a postcode, if it has a post office, if it has a name - it gets a harinam....

In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it's putting the entire planet at risk.

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Time: 2 pm
Date: Sunday October 19, 2008
Location: Hampden St and Nudgee Rd, Doomben

Every town, village, suburb, whatever@#!!

"If it has a postcode it gets a harinam."

Another slogan I like is from the Billion Soul initiative: Until the last one has heard.

I'm in New Zealand, but let the kirtan continue!

It's the yuga dharma!

Until the last one has heard,
Sita-pati das

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Location: Allen St and Oxford St, Hamilton
Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008
Time: 2 pm