Tirupati, India
Climbing is Walking
It’s been a nice change, leaving the shoes behind in the room and going for several days everywhere barefoot. I’m making brief trips generally going from one building to the other at the temple campus. It also means taking to flights of stairs several times over.
Instead of waiting for the elevator, Devamrita Swami decided to climb the stairs to the 4th floor of one building where we were holding meetings. I followed him. Tirtharaj, another friend from Australia, followed. A chain began. Moving at a good speed, Tirtharaj remarked, “We will all do a cardio test after this.” The three of us are all in our 60s and are not yet struggling too much physically. We ascended with little sweat.
It was announced at today’s meeting that I’ll be embarking on a walk from Boston to New York via Butler, Pennsylvania next year to honour a golden jubilee event. It will be 50 years since our guru Srila Prabhupada made a historical milestone – landing on American soil as an ambassador to the spiritual world. In any event, this anticipated effort of my walking to commemorate the unofficial kick start of the Hare Krishna movement was really appreciated by peers.
The several days meetings came to a close. With the hot topic of ‘female gurus’ a consensus was concluded. The majority of the group are generally in favour of having qualified ladies to function and be official teachers as diksa gurus. After a three day intensive on the subject we came to a happy conclusion.
May the Source be with you!
4 KM
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