Saturday 7 September 2019

Sunday, September 1st, 2019


Montreal, Quebec

A Stop in Montreal

From Halifax, I flew to Montreal.  It's a short flight.  Anyway, I was sad to leave our place there, but happy to be in another.

Every year our Montreal community holds a ‘memories of our guru event’ on Labour Day weekend.  I was invited and asked to speak about my personal epiphanies on the most import person in my life.  I first met Krishna monks in the summer of '72 in downtown Toronto, on Yonge Street.  A few months passed and I came in contact again with monastics on Vancouver Island.  Both encounters were brief.  Then for a longer stretch I spent hours with a group of five in my apartment when I was a college student.  It was through them that I came to realize the power and greatness of Prabhupada.

Three years later, I finally personally met him in the physical form in Atlanta, Georgia, where he sat on a vyasasan seat and sang a song called "Parama Karuna," and he sang it as if he was in that festival of unending joy.   https://youtu.be/39O09OU60aY

At that time of his demonstrating, to a room full of us students/disciples, how to approach this song in all its glory, he asked someone to pick up a mrdunga drum and rest it on his lap so he could play it.  It was rare for him to play the drum in those days, in '75 when he was about eighty years old.  He was loving it—the drum, the song, the meaning behind it.  https://youtu.be/hLjnibNGCW4

To go more in depth with the song, the lyrics describe the two lords, Chaitanya and Nityananda, coming to be with us in this dark age of Kali.  They are offering the best lifestyle.  https://youtu.be/7VLJNBnwylA

That in part is what I spoke about.  https://youtu.be/s3aP4DXYBxo

May the Source be with you!
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