Frankfurt/Chennai
What Does a Monk Do…?
What does a Hare Krishna monk do on a plane?
Well, this one (me), isn’t walking, for sure. I covered a
short distance, with Victor, at the Frankfurt airport. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3bNzpdBmhS/?igshid=1ryg158k6onza
“We’re boarding,” he said, while in the queue, “and we’ll
probably be flying over my homeland, Romania.”
“You might be able to look down and see the house where you
grew up,” I said. (Laughter)
So, what do I do while in flight? My first order of business is to chant my prescribed
or final amount of rounds on my meditation beads. Secondly, today, I read a section of the Bhagavatam,
the portion about the cosmic form of Vishnu. I also completed, from
scratch, the writing of two entries for my daily blog. (That took fifteen minutes each.) And since I
just cannot get any sleep on the plane, I have some time to kill. Okay, so
let’s have a look at “Hostile Planet,” a series of documentaries. Good stuff! I captured a segment, on my
phone, of penguins trying to feed their young.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3bLQPmA7SQ/?igshid=1d564mukjl2oj
Not only do they struggle on land and in water, but it
becomes inevitable that all wildlife in grasslands, oceans, mountains and
jungles, go through amazing trials in life.
Check out Chapter Eight, Text 16, of the Gita:
A brahma bhuvanal
lokah
punar
avartino ‘rjuna
mam upetya
tu kaunteya
punar
janma na vidyate
“From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest,
all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to my abode, O son of Kunti,
never takes birth again.” From Bhagavad-Gita
As It Is by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
We all struggle but certainly we can reduce pain, perhaps even
attain a body of non-material qualities by altering our habits. Let’s get clean, then no worries!
May the Source be with you!
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