Scarborough Bluffs, Toronto
By the Bluffs
It was our determination to go somewhere where the wind is your friend and the water motion hits rhythmic notes when it meets the beach. Paramahamsa brought me to the Bluffs, where the cliffs are so impressive and everything about the space is therapeutic.
After a healthy fresh rain, the beach’s sand was just the right content of wetness for making sandcastles, or crocodiles. Our purpose, however, was to chill, strictly in Krishna’s service. At the picnic table of our choice, we sat down to go for a reading of Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto Ten, on the subject of Krishna’s revealing His Universal Form — a great past time.
I think the world of Paramahamsa and his reading contributed to the afternoon’s pleasantness. His style of reading is digital-like and I did have to correct him in his tendency to skip the adjective “the” but other than that the reading was fine and rendered with bhakti.
At one point he pulled out some fruit for our light consumption. One of the items was jack-fruit, looking yellowy-good, and tasting divine. Seagulls hover around where fish are food, at the lakeside, along with small remnants left by humans. My seagull friends relished this fruit, which often is used as a subjee, a vegetable, in Indian cooking.
The visit to the Bluffs exposed us to sound, sun, clouds, wind, grass and trees; all gorgeous articles for a meditation. Behind the wonder of it all is Krishna.
May the Source be with you!
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