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!
4 km
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