Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

More Smooth

 

Toronto, Ontario

 

While visitors from Montreal where enjoying the company of Visesika and his wife, Nirakula, and chanting on their meditation beads in the comfort of the temple room, four of us chose the wonderful openness of the outdoors while chanting in motion.  We took to the ravine at 5:30 AM, walking a good pace.  The trail is lined by the white flowered garlic mustard plant.

 

The discovery of this wild edible by my three companions was childlike for them.  The one couple from North Carolina loved their salads.  They now found a new ingredient.

 

Emily, from Montreal, who was also with us, is a young dead ringer to Mona Lisa.  I swear.  She looks facially like, I mean she is the splitting image of DaVinci’s painting.  It is interesting to see that most classic visage be there with you in real life – and moving. 

 

The walk was a bit long and hard for the others, but it was a breeze for me.  It’s this very path that became my training ground for cross-nation walks. 

 

What a pleasure it was then to sit down after the walk in the temple singing a bhajan, devotional song, with 30 other devotees.  We sang aruna doy kirtan, the ultimate song about a life reality check.  The message is something like, “We spend our nights and days uselessly wasting away time.”  Then Vaisesika delivered a class that was, as usual, nectar to the ears.  The message was about moving forward in life, depending on Krishna, etc.  Nothing could be more smooth.

 

8 KM