Acyutananda das: It was my good fortune to be in the service of Srila Prabhupada at Sri Dham Mayapur, the birthplace of Lord Caitanya, in setting up the groundwork of our Society’s international center there.
That year (1971) there was a terrible flood, but although for many days the water was rising, it was diverted from flooding the Society’s property solely due to the embankment created by a road constructed by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, our Parama Guru Maharaja. I wrote a letter to His Divine Grace explaining the situation and I mentioned, “The water has not entered our property. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta’s road has saved us.”
Srila Prabhupada, however, wrote back in answer in a different tone: “Yes, we are always saved by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta’s road, so go on glorifying the disciplic succession, and your life will be a great success.” Full Introduction
"The disaster zone stretches from the Swat Valley in the north, where 600,000 people are in need of help, to Sindh in the south. "
“Pakistan floods: Disaster is the worst in the UN’s history”
Published: 6:07PM BST 09 Aug 2010 — The United Nations has rated the floods in Pakistan as the greatest humanitarian crisis in recent history with more people affected than the South-East Asian tsunami and the recent earthquakes in Kashmir and Haiti combined.
Although the current 1,600 death toll in Pakistan represents a tiny fraction of the estimated 610,000 people killed in the three previous events, some two million more people – 13.8 million – have suffered losses requiring long or short-term help.
Maurizio Giuliano, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said: “This disaster is worse than the tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake and the Haiti earthquake.” Full Article
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