Burnaby, British Columbia
Clean It Up
While this yatra (community) in British Columbia is engaged, like many places on the globe, in sharing Gita wisdom, a group of us felt the need to buckle down, roll up sleeves, and pull up socks for a temple internal and external clean-up. Our president and servant-leader, Manu, is partaking in the venture with enthusiasm along with Vrnda, who’s visting here from Winnipeg, Visuddha Satva, Prem, Krishna Shanti, and I. We focused on the inside of the building. Some clutter had to go. Items needed placing symmetrically. This was fun. It was relieving. By the time we finished, the room looked twice the size, safe and soothing.
Secondly, an exciting turn out of more cleansing people came about. This project took the form of a heart purification. At 11 am to 4:30 pm, with a delicious lunch break in the middle, I conducted a “Kirtan Standard Seminar.” Well received and well attended it was. The purpose here was to inform and enlighten (also remind) temple goers of standards established by our founder-Acharya, Srila Prabhupada. It serves to cleanse the soul.
This is just what the community needed. Like all places I visit, a refresher course on “standards” is paramount. A highlight for me was the session where we danced, sang, and played drums in unison. It was also enlivening to hear Nitai Priya offer voice lessons on pitch and volume.
I would conclude that we need more of this. Clean-up should be an ongoing mission on all levels.
May the Source be with you!
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