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Excerpt About a Place and a Monk
An excerpt from Satsvarup Goswami’s book, “Srila Prabhupada-Lilamrita” read this morning in the front of the assembly of yogis, spiritual leaders from across the US and Canada. I was impressed by the contents, composition, set in ’58, India and to do with our guru, Srila Prabhupada.
“Alone and poor, Abhay (Prabhupada) returned to Vrindavan. He was sixty-two, but he wasn’t thinking of retiring. More than ever his mood was reflective and renounced. Because few people know him and because he wanted to unite, he kept to himself.
He enjoyed deep peace as a resident of Vrindavan. Outside his window, the sacred Yamuna flowed by in a peaceful panorama for his private audience. The Kesi-ghata neighbourhood was quiet, though in the predawn he could hear a few devotees bathing and chanting. When the moon was full the river seemed like a coolly resplendent jewel. And in the morning the sun would appear, like a red smudge, a fire burning through an opaque wall at last bursting forth and clearing the entire sky, until in the hot blaze of noon, while the room would be in shadows, Abhay could see from his window a shimmering sun high in the sky and glittering across the silver sheet of the gentle river. Without so much as leaving his room, from his doorway he could see hundreds of temples clustered together for miles in the friendly town of Vrindavan. The various punctual kirtans and bell ringings in the temples, the spontaneous songs of Lord Krishna in numerous homes and in the streets rose and filled the air with devotion.”
I love the writing about this monk who poised himself before taking a journey to western soil.
May the Source be with you!
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