Stouffvilke/Vaughn
Getting Around
My first class for today was held in
Stouffville, a new and upcoming urban sprawl place. Along with it comes young
families who are adherent to the culture of the Vedas. In the quaint lobby of a
relatively current plaza unit is pinned on the wall’s bulletin board an
invitation to talk about “The Nine Goddesses.” I thought that was a Vedic
concept for sure. “Nine Mothers” is what some of us call it.
Inside the main presentation room, which comfortably
sits around fifty folks, the intensely painted violet walls have larger than
life freehand images of Shiva and Parvati, god and goddess. My purpose in being
with this fine group was to deliver a class on the prime God, Krishna, who
addresses, in chapter five of the Gita, the message of “Before giving up
this present body, if one is able to tolerate the anger of the material senses
and check the force of desire and anger, he is well situated and is happy in
this world.”
The message, with my humble attempt at
elaborating, was well received. Thank you, host Pitambara.
I shifted to Vaughn and to the grand house of some
dedicated devotees, the Batra family, to catch the tail end of an appreciation
dinner for those who participated in the distribution of the very best of Vedic
books capsulated in the text known as The Bhagavatam. Thank you!
Finally, my last destination was home, 243
Avenue Rd.; the temple. Here I finally had the opportunity to launch, as the
author of The Saffron Path, a book which details an account of my
walking travels through many countries.
May the Source be with you!
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