Monday, April 9th, 2012

Easter Monday in Service

Durban, South Africa

It's Easter Monday. I believe that's somewhat significant that this large Vedic festival "The Festival of Chariots" is hosted on a major Christian holiday. Naturally it is more out of convenience that this date is selected.

Here is what is also significant: Evangelists are converting many Hindus to the Christian side in South Africa. The festival hosted by ISKCON is a successful effort to attract and support people of Hindu origin and hold them in their position of piety and transcendence. In a discussion with Dutch born monk, Kadamba Kanana Swami, he expressed that the venue at present, located minutes of walking from one of South Africa's "white elephant" stadiums, is the ideal place for locals, the blacks, the coloureds and the whites.

The Youth Lounge was once again, for all, and this last (part 3) of Dance Master was just the place for feeling good. Basically we took the two stories of this weekend's dramas and danced to their narrations. That just about crowned the program for me. I had also been slotted for the Star Television's interviews. And also I executed a 40 minute charading to a group of children in the Blue Mountain they did well at guessing the words to the story of Jagannath. To add I was the guest speaker at Tent A, delivering a talk on "How to Please God". A host of questions followed.

A certain journey of one chariot through some residential streets marked the real end of a busy day which began with rain and ended with it. The usual circumambulation on the temple trail was magical with droplets of the stuff dropping into the temple's moat. The perfect circles so evenly spaced apart. Indeed, it was the perfect disbursement of sky water; just another one of those 'hand of God' moments that stirred an appreciation for Him.

8 Km