Rosedale, Toronto
I Love It
It was dark but the night was
still fairly young when Vallabha and I were strolling through a pedestrian lane
in Rosedale, when three young women, arm in arm, were oncoming. One of the
girls took notice of my saffron and just lit up. “I love it!” she blurted out.
And then a young man carrying his
disassembled bike also noted my monastic duds and asked, “Are you a Hare Krishna
monk?” And, “Indeed!” I clarified. I was happy he didn’t deliver the usual
line, “Are you Buddhist?” Afterall, Buddhists aren’t the only monks on the
planet. I believe it’s important to offer some exposure and let the public know
there is a Krishna culture out there.
It’s with great pleasure and
pride that I walk the streets and parks in traditional attire. I am passionate
about Krishna being known and, eventually, understood. It is in sharing that He
gets pleased. Check 18.68 to understand what I’m saying. That’s in the Gita.
While we are at the notion of
sharing, I wanted to share something I read today about sacrifice, change or
transformation. From Bhagavad-gita: As It Is our guru, Prabhupada,
offers to say this from verse 3.11. “By performance of sacrifice, all
activities become purified. One’s eatables become sanctified, and by eating
sanctified foodstuffs one’s very existence becomes purified; by the
purification of existence finer tissues in the memory become sanctified, and
when memory is sanctified one can think of the path of liberation, and all
these combined together lead to Krishna consciousness, the great necessity of
the present-day society.”
May the Source be with you!
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