Toronto, Ontario
Pieces and Patches of History
I had before me two waves of people. First, there was the
group of boys on tour for the summer, having the time of their lives, and
second, Brian Carivana's group of mature folks who are here from all over the U.S.
and Canada. One woman is from Lincoln,
Nebraska, which brings back walking memories from my U.S. adventures. They, the second group, are spiritually
inquisitive. "How does Hare Krishna
compare to other paths and how does it compare to my own?" was the
thinking?
The two groups were pleased with my presentations. Even the young boys were keen to hear of how
a few poor monks and nuns from the ’70s crop—I'm in there—collected the funds
to get the down payment on the building we're in.
Some hours passed, and it was time for me to get over to see
a ninety-two-year-old Bengali gentleman, and someone who personally used to
visit our guru, Prabhupada, in 1968, in Montreal, as a fairly new immigrant to
Canada. His name is Mahadev
Chakravarty. He has history to tell, not
only of those fine first days with our guru, but also of the Gandhi episodes of
India's efforts to be free of British rule, covering the details of the tragic
massacre at Amritsar, the love affair of Lady Mount Baton with Nehru and how
that influenced Nehru to divide India, what to speak of the heroism of Subhas
Chandra Bose, who was the only major instrumental person for India to gain her
independence.
I walked a good ten kilometres to get back home.
May the Source be with you!
10 km
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