Friday 12 August 2022

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Barrie, Ontario

To Barrie

Sunny (also Srivatsa) is a cool 73 years old man from Guyana who drove me to the north destination, Barrie, Ontario and Lake Simcoe. There we converged with other practitioners of bhakti yoga at Minet’s Point Park, to be more specific, with Barrie residents Jason, Naina, Mohit, their kids, Krishna Katha and Nimai-Nita to indulge in refreshments, a swim, and a chat. We took in the sun, the water, the wind and each other. Our conviction was 100% on Krishna consciousness. Yes, Krishna should always be the focus, otherwise one gets trapped in the mundaneness.

When the beach fun was completed with this group a few of us proceeded to Krishna K’s home for the most sattvic, Mauritian food by Hari Katha. The yummy episode was followed by our regular Gita Chat for Tuesday evenings, where we delved into Krishna even more, referencing chapter three.

What is chapter three all about?

A good amount of this section addresses sacrifice or, in Sanskrit, yagna. Particularly we looked at food sacrifice. You prepare food and make an offering to the Supreme. That food is sanctified as prasadam. Whereas, in the Jewish tradition, food offered is called kosher. In Christianity (the Catholics) they refer to offered food in the form of the Eucharist. The Muslims halal their food. In the Vedic tradition we call it prasadam, or mercy.

Our Gita Chat group stuck to one verse (text 11) and just explored all avenues of food blessing. I think we got a bit hungry.

May the Source be with you!

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