Sunday, December 28th, 2014

Be Adjustable

North York, Ontario

 

 

The temperature rating for today was above freezing.  Still, our newly arrived monk from Brazil found it quite the adjustment to make.  Nevertheless, this fine young man who bears the gift of a smile appreciated our including him in a breezy walk through residential Rosedale where "quiet" prevails.

 

Vitaliy, originally from the Ukraine, now residing in Detroit, has no issue with the freshness of air, nor does his fiancée, Anandarupa, who is visiting us from Miami.  Natalia, from Columbia, has already acclimatized herself to winter in our North.  All five of us meandered through the streets for a mere hour as we chanted on our individual chanting beads.

 

My thoughts are that anyone who makes a move physically, from one geographical location to another, is always up for needing to adjust, or being like a chameleon who changes his color.  To be versatile or to turn with ease from one thing to another is a skill much in demand even in a spiritual environment.

 

It becomes a tough task at times to deal with people (devotees of Krishna included) who do not develop the art of flexibility.  For example, those who keep to ways that worked well in 1965 will find that those ways do not necessarily apply in today's world.  Change is a reality as much as permanence is.  They run in parallel lines.  People's attitudes change.  Lifestyles change.  Strategies change.  But basic values such as respect should be a perpetual anchor, just as the soul is a constant principle.  Finally, certain ways of doing things out of the box should be welcome while core principles be sustained.

 

May the Source be with you!

 

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