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It takes some hours to reach this destination near the
reputed Mount Tremblant in Quebec. Unfortunately it was not on foot but
cab, plane and car. I had great company though, Vrinda from Winnipeg and
Sahadeva from Calgary. We travelled and wish listed much of the way over
en route to partake in our annual Krishna Consciousness leaders meetings for
Canada.
We had reached a rustic retreat place nestled in Laurentian
Mountain territory. Once we arrived and settled in I took note of remarks
made by our guru, Srila Prabhupada, from an article recorded on Dec 1, 1966 in
New York City.
Some significant points made are as follows:
Kirtan usually means describing.
Unless you hear you cannot describe
God has given you power of hearing,
The process to acquire knowledge is hearing.
There are two processes of knowledge, ascending and
descending.
The ascending process means trying to go high by your (own)
strength and the descending process means receiving the pure knowledge from
above.
And we have four kinds of imperfectness - (the tendency) to
commit mistakes, to be in illusion, our senses are imperfect, and the
propensity to cheat.
Our attempt to understand the Absolute Truth by our faulty
senses and experience is futile. We must hear, sravanam. That is
the Vedic process.
May the Source be we with you!
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