Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
Bag of Three
The night before had been very
trying. I was nauseous, although the surgery went well. I was out like a light.
I don’t remember a thing. The sedation worked really well. Still, there was a
concern. The last time I urinated was at 7:30 a.m. and now it reached 12 hours
later. Nothing! It then got to midnight and still – nothing again. I expressed
my concern to the nurse. I did not get panicky. “You see, I never experienced
this before.”
The nurse stood there feeling my
frustration. On one of the subsequent visits to my room of four patients, I
made my announcement to the nurse. I reported successfully releasing water
through the simple technique of what guys do to urinate. They stand up. The
nurse felt my relief and admitted that I had a good point. Anyway, it worked
out.
I can recall a class given by our
guru, Prabhupada, on Gita 2.11, and therein he explained the make up of
our bodies. It is a bag of water, fire and air. He went on to say in his very
convincing delivery that the body is a bag of these three elements and that we
are not the body. We are spirit. “The whole world is going on with the false
information; that I am the body,” he said.
I know we have to take care of
this body, which is a machine made of the material energy. That’s why I am in
the hospital. I am grateful to these medical workers who work tirelessly. The
only gripe I might have about their medical institutions is the food. However,
the good outweighs the bad.
May the Source be with you!
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