[Advaita-l] A recent news item

[Praveen R. Bhat]

Hari OM, Vidyasankar ji,

Thanks not only for sharing this news, but also the follow up mail.

I particularly like what Sw. Jnanaswarupananda Saraswati says about how not
only industrial waste, but all the pooja waste thrown by devotees in Ganga
must stop. He has called for all Shankaracharyas to unite on the cause
towards this goal and future action. As he rightly says, govt acting
independently is not at all working and instead, they should come together
with these ashrams and work together.

I've seen a lot of waste being thrown at Rishikesh and Haridwar, which
worsens during festivals & melas. I read somewhere that Acharya Chanakya
seems to have said that Ganga would vanish sometime after 5000 years of
Kaliyuga. I wonder if its true now!

gangArpaNamastu,
--Praveen R. Bhat
/* Through what should one know That owing to which all this is known!
[Br.Up. 4.5.15] */


Anyway, the important reason I posted this link is that in the person of Sri
> G D Agarwal, who is now formally Sri Jnanaswarupananda Saraswati, we
> have an example of someone whose profession was as an environmental
> scientist/engineer, who also has kept up a clear philosophical and
> religious
> orientation in his effort to keep the major Indian rivers clean and
> sustainable.
> He does not seem to think that the Hindu Shastras have "scientific" answers
> to an issue such as cleaning up the Ganga from the untreated wastes being
> poured into it, nor does he seem to think that modern science has all the
> answers to the common weal in India. In the midst of all the angst that we
> seem to have about advaitic jnAna and bhakti and science and how/whether
> we apply all of them to the communities we live in, here is someone whose
> life, ideas and motivations we should all probably study a bit more
> closely.
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