Queen’s Park, Toronto
Numerals
These days many numbers are thrown at us—stats about Covid. How many people are infected this very day? How many died from the virus? Stay at home and keep your number of people gathering down to ten. Outside you can have twenty-five, etc.… The numbers are on the rise for those found with the virus. It’s not good! It’s a second wave. The number two.
However, someone sent me some figures about saving lives if the world switched to a plant-based diet. It reads like so:
If the world switched to plant-based food by 2050:
- 8.1 million human lives would be saved every year.
- Food related greenhouse gas emissions would fall by 70%.
- $1 trillion would be saved every year in healthcare costs.
Source: Oxford study.
Those are lofty numbers concerning sparing humans. Animals too.
For those of us who made vows, whether a monastic, like me, or a grihasta, householder, we’ve committed ourselves, to our guru, to chanting a minimum of sixteen rounds on our meditation beads, to follow four regulative principles, to the seven purposes of ISKCON, to honoring the avoidance of ten offenses to the Holy Name, cultivating nine processes of bhakti (devotion), and the list goes on.
Oh yes! And today I was to remember to follow a schedule. At 4:30 pm I was to meet Saurav, a young student who has questions on the goal of life. By 5:45 pm I was to return to the ashram. A nice few minutes with him.
May the source be with you!
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