Toronto, Ontario
Hayagriva is one of our younger monks who gave a
lively class this morning. He can't do otherwise. He is a most animated person.
In his presentation regarding the soul versus the
body he relayed how souls which are by nature pure get trapped. It's the
consciousness, the soul's extension, that gets polluted, he explained. It may
be that the soul receives a body and goes trough a life cooking french fries.
Hayagriva gave an example such as this about someone whose destiny might be
limited to a greasy-spoon restaurant and
where there may be no scope for introspection. Whether confined to being in a
box cooking junk food day in and day out or having thousands of people at your
beck and call from a pent-house office for a broader world, where will our soul
end up?
Hayagriva had raised certain points regarding
succesful life as opposed to not making the grade. Should we just stay on the
grid of mundane life and be a statistic of lost souls? In any event he conveyed
his message well and all listeners
appreciated what he had to say based on youthful but deep realizations.
The day was blessed for me because of a potent
morning program in the ashram and one more occurrence. I received in the mail a
copy of " Rama-smarana ", a collection of creative reflections on
divine pastimes, monologues actually. The publication aids the reader in
realization or penetration towards devotional feelings. Most of the
contributors are from Croatia, Czech Republic and other areas of East Europe or
West Russia. Somehow my insert got included. Entitled " Maricha's
Deliberation " it conveys the inner thoughts of the cunning mystic by the
name of Marich from the epic " The Ramayana ".
In my opinion editor Krishna Ksetra has offered a
great contribution to the library of devotional litterature with this book.
From the class about French fries to the book of Rama
and walking some steps in between the day was very rich.
6 KM
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