Prime Minister to Deliver ROOPA to Un

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Prime Minister of India to Hand Deliver ROOPA to United Nations

 

My fiancée, Janavi and I've traveled 10,000 miles this summer visiting 22

temples, thru 30 states and 2 countries. Also met with a thousand or more

devotees, friends, dozens of professors, family members, several political

parties as well as the general public. The response to ROOPA has been

phenomenal. Here are some highlights.

 

ROOPA: Responsibility Of One's Products & Actions.

ROOPA simply request that people cover the social cost of their activities

and products. It's sort of like driving. You drive, you pay for the car

insurance, if you don't own a car, you get to enjoy the savings.

 

The interesting part is that "bad" things prove to have steep economic

liabilities while "good" things happen to have economic rewards. Smoking for

example is considered a "bad" thing and happens to cost Americans $100

billion a year in smoking related medical cost.

 

1) WAVES Conference-An annual gathering of 350 professors from around the

world at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken New Jersey to share

the latest findings of their respective areas of Vedic study. WAVES: World

Association of VEdic Studies.

 

A professor will be less forgiving with fuzzy details then devotees have been

with me. This was not one professor, but a roomful of economics professors.

Yes, I was nervous. The number of questions and comments over the next couple

days, however, confirmed their interest. Several offered to get involved.

Vrindavan das from my guru-kula days videotaped the presentation. He was

there to video for his Oregon TV show now going into its 5th year of

production. Vrindavan also gave a resounding presentation on sanskrit as the

origin of all languages. The professors were impressed.

 

Professor of Economics, Kusum Ketkar, from Seton Hall University, New Jersey:

"So where did you get your economics degree?"

My reply: "I am one of those village boys you read about from Vrindavan

India's Bhaktivedhanta Guru-kula. My primary education was a little Gita, a

little kirtan." She loved it and offered to help me develop ROOPA further.

 

Lawyer. Her husband is the president for the national bar association of

India. She asked: "How to implement ROOPA?

My answer: Have your husband sue all companies of vice for their social cost

to India.

 

Dr. Madan Sankhdher, Professor of Political Science, Chancellor of Delhi

University, Cabinet Minister to Prime Minister: "I will write the forward to

your book The Economics of Love."

He asked, "How to implement ROOPA?"

My answer: "ROOPA would send the Bangladesh government the bill for all the

'social cost' of the 700,000 persecuted Hindu's forced out of Bangladesh."

His reply: "I can have the Prime Minister of India hand deliver that bill to

the UN."

 

Special thanks to Nandini, the Bill Muster Foundation and the Pray for Peace

Foundation for sponsoring me at the WAVES conference.

 

 

2) ISKCON Foundation

 

Considering sponsoring a formal (university lead) academic study of ROOPA.

 

Navin Krsna, foundation board member: 'ROOPA is complimentary to the In God

We Trust Party started by Balavanta and so likely to include ROOPA in its

political platform. Balavanta wants to sue the meat industry.'

 

My reply: "Put together a lawsuit against all the companies of vice for the

total social cost of their products to the American tax payer-up to $500

billion per year in added taxes and insurance premium. That would provide a

formal court record of ROOPA if not some media attention." He loved the idea.

 

3) Green Party-Headed by Ralph Nader, has about 5% of America's voters.

 

Met with the regional director of the Green Party for Colorado. She's

interested to meet with me after the election for an in depth review.

Distributed about 150 copies of ROOPA at their events. People loved it.

 

4) Natural Law Party-John Hagelin won the Reform Party ticket (started by

Ross Perot) but lost it to Pat Buchanan in back room politics. The Natural

Law Party has about 1,000 candidates running under their ticket throughout

the country and won about .3% of the vote in the last election and anticipate

twice as many this time or about a half million votes. They also project that

up to 5% of their candidates will win their respective local, state or

federal seats.

 

Met with the presidential candidate, Dr. John Hagelin. He found the ideas

interesting. Dr. John's Spokesman, Mr. Robert Roth, took particular interest

in our 30 minute meeting. He asked for an audiotape-which I have

sent-summarizing ROOPA so he could play it while on the road with John. He is

considering ROOPA for the Natural Law Party platform.

 

5) Ganapati Swami is traveling to college campuses across the country. Some

of his Brahmacari's are now distributing ROOPA pamphlets to students on

campus. There are other developments which we can share later.

 

I distributed about 700 hardcopies of ROOPA throughout the 22 temples,

conferences, political rallies, colleges etc visited this summer. Hundreds

more were reached vai the net. Talking with the hundreds of people and dozens

of professors proved invaluable to polishing ROOPA's presentation from

earlier drafts sent out over the net in the beginning of the year. ROOPA's

latest draft seems to have really struck a cord with people.

 

I have committed the last few weeks to upgrading the presentation from the

essay handouts used so far. I am now putting ROOPA into a chart. I finished

the first of 4 charts. It lets people understand ROOPA in just seconds. The

charts should be on the web site by the end of the month at www.ROOPA.org.

 

I am now in San Francisco with Ananda and his wife learning basic layout, web

design and Outlook from him so I can better manage my 500 people mailing list

and correspondence -I have about 2,200 emails waiting review and response so

please mind my tardiness. Hope to be caught up by months end.

 

Your friend

 

Raghunatha Anudasa

(John Michael)