Milton, Ontario
God’s
Rope
Most shamefully, I did very little walking
today. Cleaning–yes–lots, in fact. I trekked on the main street of Milton after
participating in a Diwali program at Grace Anglican Church for a group of
devotees of South East Asian origin. I gave the talk and shared in leading the kirtan.
It’s actually a new Krishna community
shaping up. We are expanding. We are growing.
In the meantime, Kevala was conducting his
monthly “Evening of Bhakti,” at our downtown ISKCON centre in Toronto, to a
more Western crowd. Different audience. Same message.
The message for this month, known
traditionally as Kartik, is the
exciting time of reflecting on a rope, and not just any rope.
When I was a teen, a post-war baby-boomer,
people of our generation were spooked by the work of Alfred Hitchcock, the film
director. He was a master of suspense. I was a fan. One of his suspense movies
was a 1949 film called, “Rope.” I need
not give an account of the murder story, but it involves a rope. You can guess
how that rope was used.
I joined the Hare Krishna movement and
became a monk and hadn’t seen a film in years. In the fall of 1973, six months
after I joined, I heard about a rope—God’s rope. It is a pastime that involves
Krishna as a young child. He would be a bit menacing at times. To exercise a
touch of discipline, His Mother, Yasoda, bound her young child to a wooden,
grinding mortar and the rest is to be read about. She made the use of a rope.
It’s a charmer of a story.
May the Source be with you!
4 km
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