Spiritual Emission
Manuels, Newfoundland
My speculation and guess is that the water I see rippling over the rocks is very clean and pure. The abundant rain feeds this vein of water, the Manuels River, before merging into the salty liquids of Conception Bay, the ocean. Invigorating!
It was a good hike going along this river; much needed for me. The rains had been restricting and now, by 3 PM, the clearing of sky water allowed me full permission to enjoy a solitude of sorts.
By night, seagulls were in their flutter outside our window as they were during my hike. People had come together at Rikin’s condo which overlooks this awesome bay of water drama with the gulls flapping and screeching and currents tossing every which way.
We were focused, however, on sound descended from another world. It was part 2 of our Sadhana Bhakti presentation. Nitai Ram tapped fingers on the mrdanga drum ends to display a mini demo, and then we sang the song, Gaura Arati, to honour the luminary of mantra mastery, Chaitanya, the avatar saint who walked India in the early 1500’s.
We then spoke about the soul as our true identity, and of its function – service, and of inner peace derived from service. We talked of gossip and the negative things we get swept up in, and of a remedy, change the topic, recognize the glory in all and take to service, devotional service. We spoke of how we were all gulls before, in flight, on rocks, and on waters. But now we are humans, and we can do more than just squabble as the gulls seem to do. We owe ourselves and the world, a spiritual emission. In other words, whatever you’ve learned, share it.
We were comfortable hearing and chanting while couched in chairs in circle formation. So even the newcomers, if stiff and uptight in the beginning, became relaxed and relieved because the message gets home.
7 KM
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