The Supreme Court of India confirms this year’s (2020) Puri Rathayatra is cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic, a very good decision.
So how are we to understand why this discussion is necessary –
Lets look at history.
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 had severely infected several countries across the world including India.
The pandemic known as Bombay influenza pandemic in India had claimed over 20 millions of lives.
Sadly Rathayatra in Puri was not cancelled in 1918/1920 and because of this ignorance, ten’s of thousands of people caught the virus and died.
Today the Indian Government has learnt from that disaster and how many died when past pandemics never had lock down?
Also being Kali-yuga, the teachings of Dhanvantari (medicine of Ayurvedic teachings), is almost lost and qualified Brahmins performing potent powerful fire yagna’s to stop any disease has been long lost.
Yes, the Vedas are very powerful and is capable of stopping a pandemic like this.
Actually Prabhupada bringing the Vedic teachings to the Western World in 1965 was the beginning of a revival and eventually training up real Brahmins.
However, sadly, qualified Brahmins in Kali-yuga are very rare and most today in India just imitate Vedic teachings and give impotent lip service like a parrot and have almost no potency at all.
This weakness of not properly following the Vedic teachings, was also responsible for allowing into the Indian Subcontinent the Islamic invasion of India
Arab (Saudi Arabia) and Persian (Iran) followers of Islam forcefully converting billions since 9th Century AD to the Muslim faith and later being over run by the British, the French and Portuguese in Southern India including parts of Bengal.
The real reason why 21 million Indians died of the Influenza pandemic in 1918/20 is because these Kali-yuga Brahmins mantras and Vedic sacrifices had almost no potency.
It did work for some who had deep faith but that was rare and still 21 million Indians died.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Government of India has learned from what happened 100 years ago in 1920 when 21 million people died just in India from the Spanish flu pandemic also spread more by mass religious gatherings that were praying to stop the pandemic.
These mass religious gatherings were disastrous and only spread the virus further killing millions
It was only in late 1920 they ordered lock down and the death numbers dropped.
According to Jagannath Puri Temple records, during these mass gatherings in 1919/20 to pray against the Spanish influenza virus, they burnt large quantities of Cow dung claiming it would kill the virus, it turned out to be useless the Brahmins chanting various mantras had no potency!
In fact the opposite happened the smoke from the Cow dung killed many children and the elderly because it was polluting the air with smoke and making it difficult to breath.
Sentimental religious ignorance also existed in 1918 at the Puri Rathayatra.
This resulted in tens of thousand deaths due to large gatherings of people.
This will NOT be repeated in 2020 according to Prime Minister Modi.
Srila Prabhupada was very practical when dealing with health issues.
Even though Prabhupada was constantly chanting Hare Krishna and translating, these activities did NOT “magically” heal Prabhupada’s seriously infected finger in February 1972.
He told us to bring him a doctor who could administer penicillin to stop the infection and the pain.
He was then told to rest while the penicillin healed his finger.
There was one young immature devotee who could not understand why Krishna did not directly heal Prabhupada’s finger so he asked Prabhupada –
“Srila Prabhupada, why didn’t Krishna directly protect you, after all you are his very dear pure devotee?”
Srila Prabhupada with a big smile answered this boy
“Oh yes, Krishna DID help me, he sent me the penicillin and advice to rest until my finger healed.”
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