Indian Guru in Cancun: Subsidize Love, Not Climate Change
Shri Shri 1008 Soham, an Indian guru, wearing a flowing yellow robe and turban with his UN accreditation badge hanging around his neck, has journeyed from his Himalayan cave retreat to Mexico’s Cancun beach resort to spread his message.
The UN climate talks are expected to result in the designation of billions of dollars to poor nations, but the guru known as Babaji has another idea: subsidize love instead.
“We talk about climate change, but what about the climate inside us? We are all the time talking about subsidizing the fund to the developing countries…but what about subsidizing the essence of human love? What about compassion, accepting and respecting each other to share the collective responsibilities of our planet?” said Babaji to a stunned audience of Un delegates.
He urged the conference to look at the bigger picture, which he called the “mother-earth initiative.”
Babaji gave an example of his love-for-Mother-Earth initiative, as his efforts earlier this year to clean up plastic from the Kumbh Mela were a great success. Some 80 million people attended this 104-day festival, which is considered the largest in the world that is held at the site where the Ganges and Yamuna holy rivers meet in northern India.
The spiritual leader makes his point, as a different attitude in the past may well have circumvented the current state of affairs.
But love alone cannot save the beaches of Cancun that are losing shorelines every day.
Hope for mankind and the planet may well lie somewhere in his message, but right now money is needed more, and lots of it.
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By MDeeDubroff on 25-12-2010
