Brutal Destruction of heritage hills in Braj

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I signed the petition a couple of days back and there were only 420

signatures. So few! This mining is a real threat to Vaisnava history and

culture.

 

I lived in Mangalore for some time, and the area around Mangalore was full

of palm studded hills, very beautiful. But then a company moved in and

completely flattened half a dozen hills to build an oil refinery, and

devastated a huge huge area.

 

Also I can never forget going on one of the early ISKCON Vraja parikramas,

and on one of the last days of the parikrama discovering the flaming exhaust

tower of the Mathura oil refinery blasting out just near our dharmasalla. I

never knew there was an oil refinery in Vraja. Now there is McDonalds. I

also heard that the enchanting soft dusty parikrama path of Vrindavan town

has just been paved over with concrete and stones, where will this all end?

 

Do we want the time to come when Vraja is so badly damaged that there is

nothing at all to relate to? As it is even though Vrindavan town is getting

more and more built up, at least one can visit the relatively untouched

beauty of Krsnas extensive Vraja pastimes, but now even this is endangered!

 

While we understand that the real Vraja can never be destroyed still the

land of Vraja that is manifest to our material senses is an invaluable

source of inspiration and hope. If we can help to preserve it by going

through the effort of signing an online petition, lets at least do that.

 

So please all devotees, register your complaint and sign on to this petition

to save Vraja from destruction.

 

You can sign the petition at www.PetitionOnline.com/Barsana/petition.html

 

Your servant

Samba das