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Bless You, Hari Bhakti Vilas
Hari Bhakti Vilas is from
Maharastra, India. He was a regular attendee at our morning program in Toronto.
But now we will not see him coming again. Covid took his life this morning, but
we are confident that Govinda is calling him back to the spiritual realm.
Perhaps he will be walking in that world, very zealously enroute to the service
of His Lord.
This message of his passing is
the type of thing I receive all the time; grieving news or relieving news.
Naturally I respond to both (and we are making plans to deal with Hari’s body).
Regular news, I don’t follow. It is quite depressing so I abstain. Still, it is
important to be informed so I don’t become an ignorant or naïve person. I
usually hear of significant current events from a resident monk who is a little
more in tune, or I hear from one of our Iskcon admins who puts his or her ear
to the news.
Our guru, Prabhupada, would spend
little time on mundane news. He might look at the headlines of an article but
not do much more than that to get the gist of things. He did show some interest
in any article to do with India and in the past may have written his own
article for his “Back to Godhead” periodical, putting some relevancy to his
message such as addressing China and India declaring war on each other going
back decades ago.
Reporting on the events of the
world aren’t usually very sanguine, so hence it’s not a bad idea to reflect on
the goings on with God’s own abode. This is called lila and it’s worth
noting that it is found in the holy texts and provides the reader with a sense
of optimism.
May the Source be with you!
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