Sunday, May 22nd,
2016
Toronto, Ontario
The Need for
Blessings
Please notice: for
those following me in the walk through America, I will continue. I have taken some days off my route to attend
a wedding, a pre-school anniversary, and the blessing of some land purchased
for the purposes of bhakti (devotion).
Speaking of
blessings, I had returned from a visit to a Physio Rehab with my dear
god-brother Daniel Dean (Vallabha Chaitanya) who came in contact with a unique
form of cancer. That went well.
I decided to walk
back- a mere 8.3 kilometres- to my ashram (monastery). While trekking back through the area of
Parkdale, on King Street, I asked three young ladies on their stroll, "What
is the time?"
"8:45 pm,"
answered one of them. Another asked,
"Are you a monk?"
"Yes!"
"Do you just
walk around Parkdale and give blessings?"
"I try. It could use some, don't you think?"
There was some
agreement to the notion. Parkdale,
although an area of some fairly well-maintained homes, has some reputation for
drugs, prostitution, and mentally unstable people roaming in certain
areas. Blessings could help the place,
but I'm not sure that I have the power to release such benevolence. I can only try to function as a medium of
mercy through the use of chanting the maha-mantra as I walk the zone of
Parkdale. It is actually a place of
great potential for beauty, morality, and sanity.
I see that the city
is making the effort to culturally clean up by providing decent facility. Yet
the real revitalization depends on a spiritual participation.
Yes. That is the resort we, as humans, require - a
spiritual shelter.
May the Source be
with you!
14 km
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