Scarborough, Ontario
Wild Mind
Okay! So I did some pacing in the Toronto temple room before heading out to the ISKCON Scarborough Centre. It's quite interesting that the Toronto Yoga Show is so popular, and as a result, we are churning out a huge amount of prasadam from our kitchen, and are the most in-demand food booth on site. Our pot washers are going steady at it in the kitchen. Plenty of water gets used to the point where only a small amount of H2O made it up the pipe-line for my shower.
In any event, after my shower, I went for the outing to Scarborough to deliver a class in bhakti-yoga from the Gita. From Chapter 10 Verse 8, I spoke some about Krishna's role in relation to other avatars, and how He is the ultimate yogi in addition to being the source of avatars. Or as many teachers have said, he is the original candle that lights all the other candles.
Incidentally that image of a candle is so profound. In a second class, delivered back at home base in Toronto, I raised the point about being like a candle or flame that is situated in a windless place. That flame projects high and erect, and so is an excellent metaphor for the mind of a successful yogi, as opposed to a person whose mind is not focused. It is like a flame where a slight breeze by a window causes it to flicker.
An important aspect of training in bhakticonsciousness involves the control of the mind. It is not easy, but at least one who tries to harness it, has a better chance at happiness due to that effort being used to tame the mind which is usually turbulently wild. https://www.instagram.com/p/BvteBVSADuw/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=10ueqfl529yzn
May the Source be with you!
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