Saturday 1 August 2020

Friday, July 31, 2020

Seaton Village, Toronto

 

Try to Fix A Mistake

 

I was ambling along, beyond The Annex, through the common neighbourhood, when I received a call from my assistant, Krishna Chandra.

 

“You have a zoom class, Maharaj!” He said on behalf of someone hosting.

 

“Oh, that is my total stupidity.” I’m routinely walking at this hour but tonight was special. I was to give a Gita class based on chapter nine, verse three, about faith.  “I forgot. Is it too late?”

 

Thus I answered my own question. I can still try it. I’m 38 minutes late. “Send me the zoom link.” So K.C. did, and there were the listeners, about fifteen families.

 

I was in front of a large church on Walmer Street at that point. I took to the nearby park bench and began to speak on the queue of Dr. Jagannath Misra.

 

“Okay! Faith is an unflinching trust in something sublime. It is created by hearing from a virtuous source…”

 

Questions started rolling over the course of my talk and then phone calls also began to interject from people I have commitments with for the following day. I realized even one call came from a couple anticipating my visit to their home in Seaton Village. I guess I had a double-booking.

 

Anyway, we squeezed the class in, as well as the visit. It could have been a disastrous night but it all worked out in the end. I appealed to the supreme to aid any ability to remember and to apply an ounce of faith.

 

May the Source be with you!

5 km


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