Friday,
October 7th, 2016
Ottawa,
Ontario
Good
Day!
Mathieu
was kind, as he always is. From the
trunk of his car, he pulled out a plank long enough to knock off the sole apple
from the tree—an apple which was unreachable otherwise. It fell and rolled right to my feet. “Good aim, Mathieu!”
The
apple was a great morning gift; a breakfast on top of that. Krishna knows I grew up in a fruit-belt area
(in southern Ontario), and it was our habit, along with siblings, to yank from
a branch of any tree that which would give something delicious.
Mathieu
then drove off and left me the gift of a trail to walk, and to find my way back
to the farm. From the farm, Maxance
drove me to Russell, where a new Vaishnava school has developed. There are nine young students in the
Montessori-run school. I led them in a
chant and it turned into an aerobics-kirtan.
We
had a blast!
Vrajabhumi
is the prime teacher. I chatted with her
and her husband, Krishna Dulal—the brainchild behind the project—after our chanting
session. We spoke of schooling and how
the system that Krishna Himself had gone though, in his growing years, was a
hands-on method; a method of learning by using your senses and sensitivities on
many levels.
Back
at the farm, we conducted a sanga, a
spiritual gathering which drew some families to chanting, food and
discussion. The topic of discussion was
based on chapter 13, verse 16, from the Bhagavad-gita.
“The
Supreme Truth exists both internally and externally, in the moving and
non-moving. He is beyond the power of
the material senses to see or to know.
Although far, far away, He is also near to all.”
May
the Source be with you!
7
km
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