Gunja-malas

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Dear Kurma Prabhu,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

Thank you for this piece of information:

 

>You may be interested to note that I saw a small news report about a week

>ago here in Australia with a warning from the Australian Government Poisons

>Information Line that all retailers are ordered to immediately withdraw a

>certain gift item from the pre-Christmas shopping shelves. The Current

>Affairs report noted that the gift item, a glass jar with many colourful

>tidbits, apparently from China, contained a few Abrus precatorius seeds

>which, if ingested by children thinking them sweets, would be fatal. I

>thought the seeds looked just like gunja. Now I understand the connection.

 

Now that the Australian Government has officially blacklisted gunja seeds as

deadly toxic, it may even be risky travelling with them to Australia, as, if

discovered among one's possessions, they may create serious complications at

customs.

 

Your servant,

Madana-mohana das