Monday 7 July 2008

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Sat, Jun. 7, 2008 - Atlanta, Georgia, USA

There were emotional moments for me. The location for the weekend's Chariot festival was Piedmont Park, the very place visited by our guru, Srila Prabhupada, in February of 1975. I happened to be here when he took that walk in the cold. He wore a tailor made saffron coat. His Hands and face were exposed while holding his cane. It was biting cold outside yet he expressed an aloofness while our small travelling party of monks from Canada were feeling the chill.

During his trip to Atlanta Prabhupada had displayed some transcendental ecstacies. He had sat down before us in the temple's main room to teach us a devotional Bengali song, "Parama Karuna" in reference to the grace or mercy that flows from guru and God.

Seeing this park in the city where memorable moments creeped up on me during the Ratha Yatra, Festival of Cahriots, through Piedmont Park left me in awe. The temperature during the chariot procession reached 102 degrees fahrenheit. With the other extreme in climate we were still not able to transcend the extremity.

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