Crane, Guyana
Jaguars Protected
I am happy to know that in Guyana the hunting and killing of
jaguars is unlawful. The jaguar is the
national animal of the country and so it is with pride that conservationists
keep a vigilant watch over this beautiful creature. Now, in all my visits to Guyana, I've never
come fact to face with this wild cat in the wilderness, and I certainly hope to
keep it that way. Even when I walked
Guyana's coastline, I never really found myself in the thickets of the interior
for the opportunity. The closest thing I
had to an unfortunate animal encounter was to unintentionally step onto the
horn of a dead catfish.
Wildest of all are humans, hands down. But the kind of people I've been sharing time
with, in this South American nation, are the soft, shy and gentle. Today, I gave two classes from the Gita
on Chapters 7 and 18, both on topics of duty, or the human obligation which
runs on two tracks. The first track of
duty is the line of responsibility bestowed upon us to self, family, community
(including jaguars), nature and nation.
The second track is duty to the real self, the atma, the soul.
I was in Georgetown, which is located at the busy juncture
near the University of Guyana, and the second spot was at our ISKCON Centre in
Crane, which is beyond that interesting floating bridge over the Demerara
River.
Everyone's so nice, at least they usually are in front of this
monk. When I leave, I'm not sure what
happen, but I assume the best.
May the Source be with you!
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