Monday, September 12th, 2016
Toronto/Washington
Walking Monk Goes to Washington
I would like to use the phrase “hop, skip and a jump”
with regard to my journey today,
but that’s not how it works for aircraft travel. The flight from Thunder Bay to Toronto was
brief. It
wasn’t choppy, as the
phrase suggests, nor was the one to Washington D.C. The journeys were short and sweet, or more
truthfully,
sweet, because they were short.
I arrived at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to be picked up by a Nepalese devotee, Chaitanya
Nitai by name. It is an enviable airport
in that a gorgeous trail leads you directly into it. It runs
along the Potomac River and then under a canopy of a thousand trees.
This trail accommodates walkers and cyclists who can then
come right up to the airport entrance. I thought you
could only do that in Thunder Bay.
I feel indeed honoured to reach the U.S. capital city
to participate in ISKCON’s Historic 50th Anniversary, for it was fifty years ago that America started to
acknowledge the work which was being done by Srila
Prabhupada.
From 1966,
when papers were signed and registered in New York City, to the early winter of ’77, a span of a mere eleven
years, he established a worldwide adjustment in consciousness. His aim was to approach life with a lighter
tone, to experience bhakti, the
essence of human sentiment.
Not all the world, at this point, has recognized his great worth. The event tomorrow, held at the Capital
Hilton, is a gesture to give credit where it is due.
May the Source be with you!
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