Missing But Found
It’s always an honor to speak about walking icons. Before me were dozens of resident brahmacharis (monks), I talked about
this young prince who actually ran away from home, perhaps walked. He felt some neglect from his parents,
a stepmom and biological father. He
was only five.
He took to the wilderness and also the trails of sadhus (sages) and finally found a
suitable place for his meditation. He met his guru there - Narada Muni,
who gave him a mantra. "om namo bhagavate
vasudevaya". From
this mantra he becomes powerful as an
ascetic and a medium to communicate with the Divine. With his strong conviction and
encouragement from the aforementioned personalities he had gone through an
internal cleansing. After a
brief six months practice of both astanga
and bhakti yoga, he decided to leave
his place of meditation and return back home on foot, back to the palace
actually. The missing child
came home. Troubles and
miscommunications were reconciled. A
regretful father and his two mothers (even the nasty stepmom) had regained
consciousness, so to speak.
I had been telling the boys from our little drama troupe after
their terrific performance before a packed house at the temple that there is
nothing more unsettling for me than when I see these bills posted, like at a
bus station, of missing persons. Mostly
they are kids or teens. In
our Vancouver community one teen was last seen on a bus. He never made it home and police have
not heard hide nor hair of the unfortunate young fella.
Practically, in most cases these missing persons did not go for a
walk to achieve enlightenment. Your
imagination can go wild on what may have happened to such souls.
Dhruva's story was a happy one. He had anger issues from time to
time. For the most part he
championed those frailties and became a great leader. It was a pleasure to talk about
one of my most favorite walking heroes, Dhruva, to a group of great bhakti yogis.
May the Source be with you!
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