Rodas, Cuba
Under the Mango Tree
Today is the anniversary of the
great dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna. The anchor person to this sublime
conversation is someone by the name of Sanjaya, who is quite in a blissful
state when relating it to the blind king, Dhrtarastra. Here’s how he felt in
Sanskrit:
rajan samsmrtya samsmrtya
samvadam imam adbhutam
keshavarjunayoh punyam
hrsyami ca muhur muhuh
“Oh, King, as I repeatedly recall
this wondrous and holy dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna, I take pleasure,
being thrilled at every moment.”
I was also thrilled (in a lesser
capacity, given my fallen nature) in delivery to a group of attentive adults,
under a mango tree, a nutshell version of the conversation that many scholars
know so well as the Bhagavad-Gita, the message of the universe about
holding on to duty and surrendering to the will of a greater world; that which
is beyond my own.
This majestic mango tree is
located in the backyard of Jose, a generous man of Rodas, who is lending his
home to the public as a reading room for the publications of Prabhupada. It was
Prabhupada who brought the abovementioned conversation, so revered, to the
western world. Grateful we are to him and to Laksminath, a local Vaishnavi, who
took our visit as the gesture of an inauguration of the reading room.
Laksminath also arrange for the children in the neighborhood to display the
drama of Krishna saving his cowherd friends from the monstrous python, Agasura.
And that splendid little dramatic piece was also done under the mango tree.
Innocent kids! Charming!
May the Source be with you!
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