Saturday, March 18th, 2017
Montreal, Quebec
Train Ride
It was a really pleasant train ride. I got caught up on sleep. At the Cornwall stop, heading for Montreal,
Joe Karwat came to sit next to me.
Bearded, polite (he referred to me as “sir” each time he would say
something) and a good conversationalist, he mentioned he met Krishna monks on
the street about ten years ago.
“They gave me a cookie.”
“How was it?”
“I haven’t eaten it yet.”
“Really? All this
time you’ve been keeping the cookie?” I asked.
At this point I knew he couldn’t be put in the Cookie Monster
category. Oh well. He was nice.
Shortly after arriving at the central train station, myself
and a group of members from the Krishna community made it to the underground
subway station at Concordia for kirtan. The kirtan was lively. Thousands upon thousands of passersby—commuters—heard
our sound, and many nodded in approval.
After two hours of this sweetness, I sat with the ISKCON council
members who are revered as the elders, along with the next generation of twenty
or so highly devotional and qualified younger folks, some who are still in
school and some who are well established in the professional world.
Our topic was “Succession Planning.” The natural theme I posed, being the
facilitator, was, “Can you all work co-operatively to succeed the current group
with your innovation, sincerity and devotion, and work within a time-line?”
It was an overwhelming positive response. All were happy. I have expectations for their ongoing
positive plans.
May the Source be with you!
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