Mayapur, India
Heating Up
I still don my socks in the morning. At 4 a.m., stone-tiled floors are nippy on
the feet at that hour, despite the current rise of temperature during the
day. At 12 noon they come off. At Maha-Sringha’s home some of our Canadian
devotees, as well as Russian, along with Bengali brahmacaris, warmly (in more
ways than one) sat in kirtan. It was a jam session, in some ways, with
guitar and saxophone. It was
marvelous—musicians playing the maha-mantra.
Still more heated up, came the kirtan mela (chanting festival) which I led from 4 to 5 p.m. Here we incorporated traditional mrdunga drum and kartals (hand cymbals,) along with gong and harmonium, to invoke a
beautiful form of praising Krishna. Dancing—I
insisted upon—so we had the entire hall of people moving to steps of devotion.
It’s great when we all work and move
together. That’s called co-operation.
I have been rather strict with diet, a low purine
one, which means low in protein.
“Now, just add some barley to your
eating. It’s the major source of B12,
which is lacking in many vegetarians,” said one Ayur-veda doctor.
We did have meals between exuberant
chanting sessions—a way to burn up cells that consumption brings.
“Work now, Samadhi later,” our guru, Srila Prabhupada used to say. Samadhi
means “chill-out” in a most spiritual way.
Behave.
May the Source be with you!
5 km
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