243 Avenue Rd, Toronto
The Change and the Changeless
Last year my brother, Jerry, popped by to drop off vintage photographs of our biological family.
They came in two cardboard boxes with one of them labelled “Brownies,” which my sisters were members of. Likely that box contained Brownies chocolate bars or cookies, which were fundraisers for the organization. That one box, still kicking around with old pics in it, has been around for 55 years. The box itself is vintage.
In any event, I’m copying some of these photos for posterity’s sake and I’m happy to share some of these with you all. At least I get a chance to view a changing body exhibit of myself, which is a revelation.
In the Bhagavad-gita, 2.13, Krishna presents the famous message about the soul’s transmigration. “As the embodied soul continually passes in this body from childhood, to youth, to old age, the soul similarly moves to another body at the time of death.”
Most important to grasp is the attachment to this verse. “A self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change.” The message is clearly to not get frazzled about physical changes. The soul is the observer of change but does not change itself.
The thing about “us” is that we require to change our attitude from a self-centered one to one of broad wholesomeness.
May the source be with you!
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