Monday 17 October 2022

Sunday, October 2, 2022

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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