POLISH PRESIDENT KILLED IN PLANE CRASH

POLISH PRESIDENT LECH KACZYNSKI AND
POLITICAL ELITE KILLED IN PLANE CRASH

WARSAW (Sky News) - Polish president Lech Kaczynski and other senior officials are among dozens of people killed when their plane crashed in western Russia. The 60-year-old Polish president and his wife Maria were killed in a plane crash this morning, according to Russian officials. They were on board a flight which crashed at 10.56 Moscow time near Smolensk airport. The Army chief of staff, General Franciszek Gagor, National Bank President Slawomir Skrzypek and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremoer were also on the flight. Russian media is reporting that all 132 passengers were killed. The Kaczynski’s were travelling with several senior government figures on a trip to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn forest massacre, in which thousands of Poles were executed by Soviet secret police. They were leading the delegation to Russia to visit the place where Soviet secret police killed 22,000 Polish prisoners of war 70 years ago. Russia never formally apologized for the murders, but Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's attendance at a memorial ceremony days ago was seen as a reconciliation goodwill gesture.


Footage showed the plane broken into numerous pieces, including engines and a huge chunk of the plane's vertical stabilizer caked in mud, strewn over a large deforested area. Pilot error is suspected as a cause in the crash, according to Russia's news agency RIA Novosti. Polish citizens have started leaving floral and candle tributes near the presidential palace in Poland's capital, Warsaw, while official flags were lowered to half-mast. A new presidential election date must be announced within two weeks and an election held within the following two months.


The material body is destined to die, whether you are president or unemployed, death is inevitable. In the human form of life we should take the opportunity to put an end to birth, death, old age and disease by chanting Hare Krishna maha mantra and understanding our eternal relationship with God.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

Your birth is extraordinary and it is after so many births you could get the human life. In this human life don't waste one minute without sankirtan. One minute. Always you must engage. Utilize your time; utilize your maximum time in the service of the Lord. Because life is not real. It is not real. Now it is - what will happen after a second or minute we cannot say. Because always there are dangers. … If you say Krishna Nama, if you repeat Krishna Nama then all your dangers will go away. … You will never be afraid of anything, even death.

Śrīla Bhakti Vaibhava Purī Mahārāj :
Lecture: “Navada Bhakti”
Slovenia, summer 1998.
Śrī Krishna Chaitanya Mission.