amaranthine wrote:Yes, what a silly scene that all was. Was it to do with the Y2K thing, I really cannot remember. There were some instructions that came round as well, including such things as how to dispose of human waste nice! Funny thing is, take away the Y2k nonsense and I think its pretty good advice to have a good supply of essentials provided they don't just sit in the basesment which is what they did at my centre.
Yes amaranthine, for all my light-hearted joshing I couldn't agree more that it was good advice coming out of the Yagya. On a broader note - and perhaps reinforcing the usefulness of the idea - by observing the impact of many natural calamaties that befall us nowadays we can see that they often give rise to myriad knock-on effects that compund and even persist long after the initial incident.
As a for instance, in the event of an earthquake many, many more people are affected because of water shortages or contamination of available water supplies, disruption in electricity, outbreaks of contagious diseases. So that one event then triggers the need for a humitarian response to tackle tragedy from all imaginable angles.
I think that this is why the experts say that disaster planning is an absolute must for any society that professes to care for its individual members. Imagine facing the prospect of dying from thirst but yet being told that a particular source of water CANNOT be drunk because one might fall fould of water-bourne parasites and die. I think most humans would prefer to take the chance to quench the immediate thirst praying that the disease will pass them by.
As Baba says these are all examples of the duality of human existence nowadays.
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