Oakville, Ontario
Nitai Avatar
I’m so happy to hear new speakers
take a crack at delivering a class for the first time. This morning Premarani,
from Mexico, gave the class. Each person brings something unique to the table.
Later I went to visit Neil Cox,
the wood sculptor, at his workshop. He is progressing with his massive chunk of
maple tree, carving out Krishna. I was moved when I heard he secured a tree from
the area I was raised in, the Blenheim-Ridgetown area. I was further moved when
I saw in the loft the mock image of Chief Tecumseh, the great warrior of whom
he crafted a beautiful piece for the Windsor public library. I was born by the
river just a two day walk from where Tecumseh was killed in action two
centuries before.
By 3:15 in the afternoon, it was
time to scoot over to Oakville where there is this amazing yoga studio called
“iGita.” Such ambiance! I was glad to see a group dynamic there numbering
around the figure of fourty, all masked. A good number of children were
present. If you have a Sunday school program, you will attract people.
It was such a pleasure to speak
about the most benevolent avatar of all, Nityananda. This historic personality
is not so well established in the world. The onus is on us, bhakti-yoga
practitioners, to share with whomever we meet. Nityananda, along with another
avatar, Chaitanya, inaugurated the movement of sankirtan, ecstatic
chanting amongst the public. His name in short is Nitai.
May the Source be with you!
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