I'll see you on the dark side of the moon…
There’s been a couple of articles on eclipses in the past couple of weeks, which makes sense since we’ve had two eclipses in the past couple of weeks.
The devotee writer (who, I believe is Canadian) admonishes the world for thinking eclipses are pretty cool things and believes that if we all knew just how bad they were, we’d name them like we do hurricanes. He named the first one “Kamsa” and the second one “Putana.”
In the first article, which I unfortunately can’t find, he described two events that happened because of Kamsa Eclipse. One was that Lila was raped and murdered (which kind of takes the blame off of the psycho who killed her) and some trouble at Prabhupada’s samadhi (the only trouble that I could find there, aside from the normal trouble, was that a mataji needed a projector bulb).
But it was the time between the two eclipses that he devoted his next long, rambling article to. Which is pretty convenient. It’s much easier to find really bad things if you widen when these really bad things occur.
He posts an article from Yahoo news about how crappy last week was to back up what he’s saying. And it really was crappy.
His article, which was written on Feb 19, then warns us that more is to come! The eclipse, then, was only two days away!
Well, nothing all that bad happened in the next two days. The eclipse was last night and it was pretty neat. I tried to get a few pictures of it, but I have no tripod. But I digress, because he isn’t finished.
It’s not just the day of the eclipse that is bad. Oh no. “After Eclipse Putana, the problems foreshadowed by the eclipse are not likely to dissipate immediately, for an EFI (eclipse field of influence) can be expected to last for another month or so.”
A month or so? Well heck! A ton of crappy things can happen in the next month or so! The first eclipse was a month ago, the second was last night. And now there may be as many as two more months? That’s three whole months! Come on! Of course bad things are going to happen then!
He does then go on to say that the material world is a pretty bad place and there are bad things at every step and that we need to chant Hare Krishna. I agree. And that’s the same reason that I disagree with this eclipse thing. There are always bad things happening. Eclipse or no eclipse.
It’s not that I disagree with astrology. I find some merit in it. But ultimately find it amazingly unimportant.
In recent memory, there have been three pretty bad disasters: 9/11, Katrina and the Tsunami. There have been more, but really, those are the three big bad ones. Were there eclipses during those times? I haven’t done the research (because, again, it really doesn’t matter), but I’m willing to bet that no, there were no eclipses.
So if bad things can happen “at every step,” why care about eclipses? Why write long rambling articles about them (a question that I’m asking myself as well!)?
I do think it’s a bit goofy to focus on these things. There seems to be little proof that eclipses cause bad things to happen, since bad things (and good things) are happening all the time.
Besides, Caitanya Mahaprabhu was born during an eclipse. Kind of makes them all right with me.
