Freedom Ended?
Fil came to me for a hug and then I asked him if he wanted
to spend his last moments of freedom for a three kilometer hike with a
monk. He said most abruptly, “Let’s go!”
It was just a literal four hours from when he was to ‘tie
the knot,’ so to speak – get married. He was going to be the lucky
bride-groom to Sukayanti, a devotee girl from Israel. Their Vedic
wedding would be at 10 AM. They already had their official marriage
last fall but considered that the real exchange of vows was in the temple
before family, friends, and God.
So Fil and I ambled along Roxborough, then south on Yonge
where we met a group of five young guys at Davenport. They had been
up all night, were ‘pissed,’ as the saying goes, and smelt like a combined
brewery and tobacco farm. They were awfully friendly though, and
curious.
I volunteered to talk and we walked southbound on
Yonge. I told them we were walking and meditating. “What
are you doing?” I volleyed to them. Half embarrassed, and
half in twilight zone, they answered what they could. I told them
about Fil getting married. One of the guys animated with his face a
melted heart. Then another jokingly asked, “Did you have a bachelor’s
party?”
“Yeah, we’re having it right now!” I
expressed. At Bloor we separated as they received a Krishna parting
from us.
Fil and I returned to the ashram/temple. He got
busy while I started to prepare for the journey to complete my fourth cross-Canada
walk. At speech time, I like others, was given one and a half
minutes, to say something. The short of that was, “A marriage is a
sacrifice where two people had freedom and now share
space. According to 3.10 of the Bhagavad-gita, sacrificing is for
humans and super-humans (demigods) with end result being
happiness. So be happy in a spiritual-centric relationship!”
Fil and Sukayanti – congratulations!
May the Source be with you!
5 KM
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