Wasaga Beach, Ontario
Last Day
It was the last day of summer and
our intent was to squeeze in the few remaining hours by taking advantage of
sun, water and sand with members of the Bhakti Academy. Our first destination
for this outdoor bonding was in Wasaga where a kind Vaishnava, Jiva Mukta, lent
us his beach house for the day. Thank you!
From this location our group of
eleven drove south to Caledon, to a farm where ahimsa-milk is produced.
Vishal and Yasomati own and run the place. Their son, Radesh, 16, took us
around their state-of-the-art farm; a highly mechanized facility for tending to
lovable bulls, cows and calves of the gir species. We listened and
watched how when one has the funds and smarts an efficient job can be done to
protect these giving animals. The family of five, with three generations on
site, are an amazing workforce taking up this vital service. I am feeling an
incredible reverence towards them.
Along with the Academy to
accompany us was a new pujari priest, Durgan, and a new temple assistant,
Giridhari Lila, from the Ukraine, we all indulged in the study of the Gita,
chapter 3, text 27 and what we could consider to be a perfect definition of
what is maya. This Sanskrit word, used amply by practitioners of bhakti-yoga
culture, identifies the action of the ego and the three modes of nature. The
idea, though, is to confront them.
May the Source be with you!
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