By Kulavati Krishnapriya Devi Dasi
Mayapur Clean & Green, an environmental initiative led by Murari Mohini Devi Dasi, recently welcomed new devotee volunteers who enthusiastically contributed to the cleaning activity for several days and helped raise funds for the laborers. Their service highlights the challenges of a rapidly expanding population in Mayapur without a matching infrastructure, waste management resources, financial support, and more volunteers to keep the Holy Dham clean and safe.
Murari Mohini said, “Because of the presence of more than 200 hotels and no proper waste system, it is being disposed of indiscriminately everywhere in Mayapur, leading to the creation of illegal land fields.”
In response, some devotees from the Russian and Lithuanian communities perceived these burgeoning issues and resolved to collaborate. Murari said, “Two Russian devotees came forward to help. One of them was Antiminem Prabhu, hailing from Siberia. He likes to live in a clean place, so he decided that he would join our team for a day. Amala Bhakta Prabhu from the Russian community was another devotee who was here in Mayapur and volunteered for a few days raising some funds for us so that we were able to pay our laborers.”
The cleanup, coinciding with the Disappearance Day of Srila Prabhupada, served as an offering to him. Murari revealed, “It was the disappearance day of Srila Prabhupada and we did this to honor him as an offering of love because we don’t want a school with his name on it surrounded by all kinds of waste.”
After cleaning the Bhaktivedanta National School, the team had an extensive cleaning at Jagannath Das Babaji Maharaj’s place of Japa. Vladimir, a devotee from Lithuania, was here for a few days in Mayapur and did a lot of voluntary cleaning every day. Murari revealed, “We took nearly two tons of waste from underneath the Bakul tree where Babaji Maharaj used to meditate on his japa beads. We cleaned the tree and took some dry Tulsi branches from there. Then we cleaned outside the boundary wall of this holy place next to Ganga.”
Read more: https://iskconnews.org/mayapur-environmental-initiative-seeks-support-for-growing-challenges-in-the-dham/
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