Back In
I am back in Canada, but still moving around. I was booked with
Krishna Club at York University to speak on “A Day in the Life of a Monk.” To reach the location on campus for sitting
in the round, I decided to walk two thirds of the way there to Sheppard and
Bathurst.
A young woman, Sonia, was waiting at the street corner near Holy
Blossom Synagogue, when she saw me cross. I heard her audible question over the traffic noise.
“Are you a monk?” I did a pedestrian u-turn
and got to the spot of her standing point.
“Yes, as a matter of fact, I am.”
We got to talking. I wish she could have attended the talk I was
delivering. All along my trek on Bathurst
I could see there were responsive people, including Jewish private school
students, and Catholic Filipino folks now off from work.
I was reminded of the multicultural world we live in, not much
different from the town I was raised in. We had people of varying backgrounds, a
veritable potpourri of folks. English,
French, Belgian, Dutch, Czechs, Italians, etc. Even a brown Trinidadian man came to move to
town to teach mathematics at the high school.
Eventually I did get picked up by Yura and Aastha for the balance of
the trip to York U. Aastha does standup
comedy. On her request, she had asked
for topics she might include in her act.
“Why not open the Bhagavad-gita and derive some ideas from there –
topics such as karma , dharma, the
three modes, yoga, liberation, and happiness to begin with?” Happiness is a topic she’s already been toying
with, hence the question, “What else?”
We met with students in the round and delineated on a day in the
life to a degree. I believe the young
minds were transported. But I think the kirtan at the end of the session allowed
themselves to travel for a moment extra-terrestially.
May the Source be with you!
10 KM
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