Bragg
Creek, Alberta
Wanting to See
Jagajivan
and I were hoping to spot some elk, or maybe a moose. The sign on Highway 762 reads, “Moose next 10
kilometres.” Okay, let’s hope. It’s early.
The sun’s not up yet. It’s
quiet. We’re making no noise except for
the gentle footsteps made on the road, and the snow laying on the pavement
muffles any sound.
For
me, sighting wildlife of the magnitude of moose, elk or caribou is auspicious. It excites me.
It would not be like having a vision of a coming avatar, but it’s
getting there. Seeing an avatar, God
Incarnate, would be Divine Darshan, a spiritual vision, a genuine God
experience.
I
guess I will settle for a viewing of His reps, the devotees. In yesterday’s session of meetings, I had the
pleasure to see all twenty-five of them, men and women with a mission, a focus
on improving performance in life skills.
Prabhupada,
our guru, compiled a statement on the seven purposes of his mission,
ISKCON. The first purpose addresses
checking the imbalanced lives in which we live.
To clarify the point, most of us give little of no attention to our
spiritual cultivation, rather we are focussed on the physical end of
things. To gain an equalizing balance,
it is necessary to invest in the soul. Two souls.
The one which is in the heart and a second one at the ends of the
legs—spelled sole. Heart and feet.
Well,
we did not see wild ‘game’, as hunters would say, but we did see angels. In fact, we spent hours with them—Krishna’s
devotees.
May the
Source be with you!
5 km
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