Solution for natural disasters

[Guest guest]

Hrdayananda: In my zone there are many countries that are always being hit

by earthquakes, tidal waves, floods, repeatedly.

 

Prabhupada: Yes. So what is to be done?

 

Hrdayananda: We'll go afterwards and preach there.

 

Prabhupada: Eh?

 

Hrdayananda: We will go afterwards and preach there. There is another

country right next to it...

 

Prabhupada: Tell them that if you take to Hare Krsna, then these things will

not happen. Tell them.

 

Hrdayananda: Yes. In Caracas, where you visited, less then ten years ago

there was a big earthquake and many big skyscrapers fell into the earth,

completely disappeared.

 

Prabhupada: Oh?

 

Hrdayananda: The whole skyscraper just fell into the earth. That was in

Caracas. They said that after that people became more pious. During the

earthquake they were screaming to God, "Have mercy, have mercy."

 

Prabhupada: Yes.

 

Hrdayananda: Another country, Nicaragua, just a few years ago there was a

big earthquake, and the capital city was entirely destroyed. It was all

gone, the entire capital.

 

Tamala Krsna: I have experience of an earthquake, Prabhupada.

 

Prabhupada: Hm.

 

Tamala Krsna: I was in one in Mexico. It was at night. When the earthquake

happened I was completely thrown right out of my bed.

 

Prabhupada: Hm?

 

Tamala Krsna: I was thrown right out of the bed by the earthquake. It shook

the building so much, the whole building shook, and I was thrown right out

of the bed. Fortunately that building I was in, it only sagged, but other

buildings completely collapsed. The building was left slanting, though. We

had to all evacuate the building.

 

Hrdayananda: So it reminds us of the Krsna book, because in Caracas, when

there was an earthquake, the whole sky became dark, and there were great

roaring sounds in the sky.

 

Prabhupada: Where?

 

Hrdayananda: In Caracas. Great roaring sounds and the sky became dark, no

one could see, and then everything began to...

 

Prabhupada: When it was?

 

Hrdayananda: Less than ten years ago.

 

Prabhupada: Oh.

 

Hrdayananda: Eight years ago, perhaps. My zone is very well known for that.

Many times they have these disasters, and thousands of people are killed.

 

Prabhupada: So you can stop these things by chanting Hare Krsna.

 

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk -- February 11, 1976, Mayapura