Auckland, New Zealand
A Full Day
Its time to look at the maps again. Studying the layout of Auckland brought me to the conclusion that Radha Madhadava and I follow Mt Albert road. It was an early take - 3:40am. Two leaders start up singing beautifully. A large brewery company lives in New Zealand, put the bird. On its label and named it after the bird. I don’t believe that doing so adds glory to the feathered friend.
As it often goes in a new place there is a tendency to get lost. We came to a dead end and in the dark morning it left us a bit surrounded. Fortunately Chinese women riding a city bus gave us a free ride and put us back to a trail in the direction of the Auckland farm. This at Riverhead district in a newly constructed Temple very tastefully done and octagonal in shape.
After delivering a message from the book Bhagavatam we enjoyed breakfast with facilitator Kalasambase a New Zealander from birth. Then an impressive eighty students at the primary level was assembled to meet with this Canadian monk. They were great. I Love kids. I probably would have been a good dad but that was not my destiny. The senior students then put on a special matinee of there last theatrical –production.
A subsequent two of the days walk took me south bound on the great south road. It wasn’t a solo. Dwarkadish, a local engineer, became my companion through an industrial area. The diesel fumes from the traffic is a little more than what I'm use to.
Dwarkadish opened up his home to guests for an evening chant and reading about king Nrgha, a charitable monarch, who found himself in a precarious situation donating one cow to two different brahmins by mistake. One lesson to be learnt from the story is that you never want to get stucked in the middle of two angry brahmins their cursing can make life hell.
21 Km
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