Friday, January 18, 2019

Round Rock/Houston, Texas

With Tibetan Monks

Walking today consisted of a few steps along a spillway and the Bushy Creek Trail, and up to the home of Rama Vijay, one of the organizers of the famous Sadhu Sangha which takes place in North Carolina every year.  Rama Vijay is a handsome thirty-eight -year-old husband and father who most recently was stricken with cancer.  Although a very successful businessman, he had to desist from employment to work on regaining health.  With Ayurvedic treatment, a change of diet and other measures, he hopes to make a turnaround.

He asked me, “What did you speak about in the morning Bhagavatam class held at the suburban home of Rupa and Maha?”

I spoke from Canto 7, a verse from the progressive five-year-old Prahlad, and how he viewed no one as friend, and no one as enemy.  He was referring to a ‘oneness’ and that all souls are simply servants of the Supreme. In the purport, Prabhupada spoke of this point of view as Vaikunthathinking.  We are all servants.

Rama Vijay, who gets around with the aid of a walker, nodded in approval, liking the term “Vaikuntha thinking.”  I do wish RV well.

Whisked away down the interstate (on a set of wheels), a sweet family, with their dog, Chicoo, brought me to Houston which is east-bound. At the community centre, the community was deeply sunk into prasadam.Along with these good folks was a group of Tibetan monks.  It looks like they can enjoy pizza like a Krishna monk from Canada can.  They were very gracious and I believe the managers were reciprocally kind to them.  After all, hosts extend the warmth first, and then the gesture returns.

May the Source be with you!

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