Bowls emerged the bowls limes and wet rags in the surf, not far from clay, rotting, which back washed ashore, flotsam from previous Hindu ceremonies to mark, festivals, births, deaths, and everything in between.
As the Hindu population in Queens has grown over the last ten years, so has also ritual were-clothes, statues, even cremation ashes lining the Bay in gateway national recreation area.
A pilgrim, Madan Padarat said "We Ganges call it,", as he finished his prayers. "it takes your illness, your pain, your suffering."
But to the Park Rangers who patrol the beach are the Holy waters trash are fragile Habitat, the offers and which are banks to maintain a Federal Constitutional Republic, which must be kept clean for picnickers, fishermen and kayakers. In contrast to the lead-they say, is the enclosed Bay refuse to not sweep away.
The result is a conflict between two camps who consider the site to be sacrosanct for very different reasons, have spent years in a quiet tug of war between the old traditions and modern rules. Hard diplomacy on both sides has helped, but only to a point.
"I can not people stop and say," you can not come to the water and make offers, "Pandit said Chunelall Narine, the priest in a thriving ozone Park Temple, Shri Trimurti Bhavan, which sometimes leads to services of the Bay.""We are in a dead end right now."
On Friday, Earth Day, celebrities Hindu Park Rangers in the beach clean-up plan, close to Kennedy International Airport, as part of a long-standing "no trace can" join campaign. Carefully to dictate, issues of faith, have Park officials, to Hindu temples, stretched gently encourage members to the waters to pray, but not for the gods to leave. And many Hindus have undertaken.
But as new immigrants are unaware of the rules and others refuse to change their habits, Park Rangers good COP have left temporarily sensitivity for bad COP force: installation of characters, include the parking lot at night and is in danger, $75 fines hand, little success.
"It a problem mounting, for years", said Kathy Krause, the supervisory Park Ranger. "The distribution of these elements is very, very dangerous."
It began with the coconuts.
John Zuzworsky, a former Ranger, noticed that dozens of them sink into Jamaica Bay a decade before, although the next coconut palms 1,200 miles away were likely. Then he found flags, bamboo sticks, saris, and coins.
After around questions and experience some Hindu rituals, he learned that the items were offered religious. Hindus have to go to the beach and let offers mother Ganges, the goddess of the River, to ensure respect and blessings in this life and the next. Mr. Narine declared "The offer is not completed when it is finally put in the water".
Mr Zuzworsky saw an opening for discussion. "A lot of Hindu traditions are established in accordance with the Earth, and we were a National Park,", said the former Ranger who trained as a wildlife biologist, but volunteered his services as to Hindus. "I thought it was a real connection."
He attended dozens of Hindu temples, the area which fragile ecosystem to discuss how Sari's the sea grass strangle could, could flowers could disrupt the birds gagging and fruits of the food chain. As Mr Zuzworsky Park left in the year 2008, Rangers has become even more creative in spreading the word join to a panel of priests in a local television channel. Mrs Krause discussed litter before more than 1,000 Hindus in an outdoor reading of the Ramayana.
Cremated remains, are a particularly sensitive issue. The scattering of ashes in water is the most sacred rituals under the Hinduism necessary for a successful transition to the next life. The practice has created concern Park officials. You issue special permits for the distribution of ashes on the basis of case by base, but Hindu leaders acknowledge that some relatives wait permission to do.
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