[Guruvayur/Guruvayoor] Disappearance of the Ganges

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HARI AUM

 

If the information points to a situation beyond human

capabilities the only way left is to seek relief from

our Bhagavan. He is 'abundant' not 'scarce'.But let us

also do what we can which is 'rightfully' ours leaving

the 'authorship' of the result to 'him'.

 

There could be organisation/sites for 'save ganges'.

" e.g.The founder of the Save the Ganges campaign, Dr V.B. Mishra, was recently

in Australia. He was here to return the visit of a group of school students from

....

www.abc.net.au/rn/science/earth/stories/s915182.htm - 28k - Cached - Similar

pages

HELP US SAVE THE GANGES, WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO COMPLETE THIS ENDEVOUR. WE CAN

WORK TOGETHER TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE ...

www.sulekha.com/blogs/tags/tag.aspx?tag=Ganges - 21k - Cached - Similar pages "

 

let us seek them and do our best.

 

Regards

 

Balagopal

 

NARAYANA NARAYANA NARAYANA

 

 

 

--- " sreedhar c.p " <sreepal20 wrote:

 

> Hare Krishna,

> For Infom,

>

> Disappearance of the Ganges

> From Stephen Knapp

> As reported in an article by Charles Arthur in the

> June 8, 1999 edition of 'The Independent' in

> England, new information has been gathered by

> scientists at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in

> Delhi, India, regarding how the glaciers in the

> Himalayas are retreating.

> The glacier above Gangotri, from which the Ganges

> River starts, has retreated about one kilometer in

> the past 20 years or so. In fact, it has been

> determined that these glaciers are retreating faster

> than anywhere else on the planet.

> Professor Syed Hassain, the main author of the

> report, relates that all of the glaciers in the

> middle Himalayas are retreating. He warns that many

> of the glaciers in this region could disappear by

> 2035. New fears are that the meltwater could produce

> catastrophic floods as mountain lakes overflow.

> As I explained in a previous book, 'The Vedic

> Prophecies: A New Look into the Future', the Vedic

> texts reveal that such holy rivers as the Ganges

> will dry up and become only a series of small lakes,

> at best. In this way, they may practically

> disappear, as did the Sarasvati River. This latest

> report surely seems to show the possibility of this

> happening sooner than expected. This also shows the

> reason that the origination mouth of the Ganges, at

> the ice cave called Gaumukh above Gangotri, is

> retreating farther away as the years go by. So those

> travelers who wish to journey to this mouth of the

> holy Ganga will have to travel farther up into the

> hills as time goes by. This also indicates why this

> mouth of the Ganges is always changing in its

> appearance.

> Getting back to the way the glaciers are retreating,

> at the University of Colorado in Boulder, a research

> team has found that the mountain glaciers are

> diminishing in the West as well. The Alps have lost

> nearly 50% of their ice in the last 100 years. The

> Major glacier at Mt. Kenya has lost 8% of its size,

> and 14 of the 27 glaciers in Spain are gone. The

> disappearing of the mountain glaciers is also

> reported in an article by Lily Whiteman in the

> January/February issue of 'National Parks.' It

> stated that there were more than 150 glaciers in

> Glacier National Park in Montana back in 1850. Now

> there are only 50, and it is expected that these

> will also disappear within the next four decades.

> This is primarily blamed on the increase in global

> temperatures by only one degree since the 1800's.

> Glaciers, because of being too solid and stable to

> show short-term variations in climate, are

> particularly good barometers of global warming.

> In regard to the Vedic tradition, it explains that

> the Ganges fell from heaven to earth and was caught

> on the head of Lord Shiva. This was to prevent the

> intense damage that the force of it would cause to

> the earth if it fell directly on to the planet. This

> took place at Gangotri, where the water backed up

> into the mountains where much of it froze. The

> course of the Ganges is said to still flow through

> the universe and come down to the earth planet.

> However, much of the river water comes from

> underneath the glacier. If the glacier at Gaumukh

> does continue to recede or melt away, and if the

> Ganges would ever cease its flow or begin to dry up,

> it would certainly mean the end of an era and a

> drastic effect on the spiritual culture as we have

> known it in India. Indeed, it would never be the

> same.

>

>

> With Love,

> Sree

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