Monday, 14 February 2022

Friday, February 11, 2022

243 Ave. Rd., Toronto

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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