Saturday 20 July 2019

Tuesday, July 16th, 2019


Sudbury, Ontario

Only Swam

We did go and jump in the lake.  Enroute to Sudbury for another Festival of India show, the boys and I stopped in Parry Sound to get wet—get refreshed.  Gaura and I found the dip to be perfectly normal, being born and raised in Canada, but Gopal, Ananda and Dwarkanatha looked on it as purely experiential.  What fresh, clean water to swim in—no fast currents, no dangerous aquatics.

Once we arrived at Grace Hartman's Auditorium in Bell Park, set at the edge of Ramsey Lake, we met the van-load of girls from Florida and Chicago—all Krishna devotees—and it became time for sound testing on the stage, as well as a full run through our drama, "Gita: Concise."

This is our second year of performing in the city of Sudbury, the place where I have my own history of first meeting, meaningfully, a group of monks, who enticed and hooked me to monastic life back in late 1972.  I told the audience, once we opened the show: "I met these monks who were chanting at the corner of Elm and Notre Dame, in downtown Sudbury, when I was going through some Christmas blues (I explained that) and I acquired a copy of the 'Bhagavad-gita.'  Receiving that book changed my life... so now, we are going to present to you the major principles of that text, an actual philosophical conversation.  It is called, 'Gita: Concise,' and the girls of our traveling tour are presenting it.  With hands together, let's be entertained and enlightened..."

May the Source be with you!
0 km - Only swam


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