Ramsden Park, Toronto
Two nice Guys
My physio for today entailed a
few exercises, and one of them was a simple walk to the park. Gabriel and I
made it to a bench to sit for a reading of the Bhagavatam; a repeat from
the other day. Only today, it appeared someone was watching me from a distance
and wanted to connect. The park happened to be overrun by him and his cohorts.
Anyway, I was keen to see just why he was coming forth in the most modest way.
Just to break the mystery
surrounding this fellow, I’ll tell you he was a bold squirrel. He came near us
with bushy tail up. Then he squatted and extended his paws. I extended my hand
and he reciprocated with his right one and set it right in mine. It was kind of
a high-five, if not an attempted handshake. Gabriel had to capture this with
his camera. It was so cute.
That was one person we met,
before he scurried off. The next individual was a neighbour from four blocks
away.
“What religion?” he asked.
“Hare Krishna!”
“Were you born into this?” he
continued.
“My parents brought me up Roman
Catholic, but Jesus is still in the picture. Krishna takes greater influence.
We also accept Buddha as one of our avatars. But Krishna is the dominant
one.”
Gabriel held up a picture of
Krishna from his Bhagavatam book. “Here is what He looks like.”
“Oh yeah!” remarked the man, who
hails from the U.K., but is now living in Canada. We didn’t shake hands, like
the squirrel, but did farewell one-another, hoping to communicate more in the
future.
May the Source be with you!
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