He Would Be Pleased
Life in the dham is pure.
Not all who contact the dham (holy place) however, benefit. There’s pickpockets and people of greed, and
ulterior motives. After all, there’s
lots of money to be made at pilgrim sites, where people converge from all
around the world.
You hear at announcement time the loss of a passport, a
wallet, or someone’s precious chanting beads. Fortunately the beads are easily
replaceable. There are some developers
in the area that are exploiting tenants but not delivering full
expectations. We hear of buildings not
up to code, or built in too tight to each other.
This may sound depressing and unspiritual but that may be an
aspect of the ‘dark-side’ of Mayapur. There is a lot more reason to sound
conches and gongs over the pluses.
Pilgrims are not fools. At least
they should not be naive. This is the
material world and blessed we are to have wonderful areas of retreat and refuge
in which to charge the spiritual batteries.
I see happy faces here.
People of different shades engaged in the same thing. At the Kirtan Mela there are Chinese,
African, as well as South and North American participants. You have Aussies and Europeans enthralled in
song. It is as the great luminary
Bhaktivinode predicted. Our guru, Srila
Prabhupada, must be pleased. When you
think about it, in a mere 50 years since the inception of this branch of
Gaudiya Vaishnavism, So much growth, along with growing pains, has taken place.
May the Source be with you!
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