Georgetown, Guyana
A Peace of the Action
Pastor Magarel was not a participant in the walking portion of our Padayatra, Day Two. But he was present in a big way at the evening site. Our venue was at the heart of the city Georgetown, at the Indian Monument Gardens. The Pastor is one year my senior in physical age and is a member of the Unification Church. As guest speaker he spoke about betterment and of peace and extend a discussion on the topic included myself. I offered to say that there cannot be any happiness without peace, quoting the Gita. In our track of earlier on, I noted a saying from a brushed on painted message from a municipal wall - "Happiness is an inside job".
It is necessary, if you are serious to get to happiness, to do so by addressing the storms within. Now for practically the whole day, monsoon rains have been pouring down to the point of a possible cancellation of the whole Padayatra. Organizer, Prabhupadadeva, told his helpers, they will bear out time on the entire weather condition. His strategy panned out successful because not one drop touched us in the evening.
I was told by more than one individual that when the monsoons hit Georgetown, much of the place gets flooded, all except for, ironically, a street called, "Water Street."
It was agreed upon by the audience that the storms and deluge of lust, anger, greed, madness, illusion and envy be tackled. Our approach to this was through the grand finale of the night - kirtan. And there was one more extraordinary thing that Pastor Magarel did in addition to dancing with us. He asked if he could pick up one of our extra mrdunga drums to join in on the fun. Gladly he was given the green light. He ended up playing very rhythmically.
This is where peace begin - People uniting in song and dance for the Divine.
May the Source be with you!
6 KM
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