Tuesday 26 May 2009

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Marrying into the calm

Toronto Ontario

"I'm off to a wedding, a grand wedding", I informed the passenger next to me as we landed at Pearson Airport.

"Someome you know?" he asked.

"Oh, yes, they're like my kids."

Minutes later I found myself in the main hall of the temple which was gorgeously and tastefully decorated. Happy faces and energetic bodies were scurrying about making ready the fine arrangements for the marriage of bride groom, Vibhu and bride Shastyna, both second generation Hare Krishnas. He is French Canadian while she is Mauritian born. A lovely couple, really !

All their friends looked as if in royal apparel, loyal tradition in sarees and dhotis. Just after a procession of best men led by a bangra drummer a visiting swami from Florida, Ritadvaja Swami. I liked what he said to the crowd.

"you might wonder what a renounced person has to do with a ceremony wich involves wedlock?"

Then he took an excerpt from the Bhagavad-gita purport of 8.5 "Vivaha-yajna, the marriage ceremony, is meant to regulate the human mind so that it may become peaceful for spiritual advancement. For most people this vivaha-yajna should be encouraged even by persons in the renouced order of life..." The message was that two people coming together in a prescribed sacrifice meant for achieving the Supreme Lord. Hence comes the term "tightening the bonds that free us."

I mentioned to Vibhu, the bridegroom, about not only how lucky he was to have his partner but just how safe it is to be settled. He understood that one good woman with God is sufficient to calm body and mind.

Congradulations Vibhu and Shastyna !

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