Regina, Saskatchewan
Any Little Walking…
Any little walking done today was in sections. I did a stretch of a Saskatoon suburb, a
stretch along Highway 11, also Albert Street in Regina, and also including a
little piece of the Trans Canada Highway, Highway 1.
In between I visited two mandirs (temples), primarily to speak and to chant. At the Lakshmi Narayan Temple, I spoke from
Bhagavad Gita, 2.1, wherein Arjuna addresses Krishna as Madhusudhana, which refers to Him as the slayer of a demon. With this nomenclature, Arjuna appeals to
Krishna, and hopes that Krishna will extinguish the demon of doubt.
Doubt isn’t always necessarily a negative feature. It could simply represent a sign of
intelligence and that one is craving to clarify some internal confusion. A serious doubt that lingers, however, could
hamper one’s moving ahead, and therefore, one may push on to clear this
blockage. This was the situation with
Arjuna, and so he referred to the confusion within as a demon that needed to
end.
In Regina, at the ISKCON Centre, I spoke from Bhagavad
Gita 9.30, which deals with God’s compassion over the soul who has slipped from dharma.
The message was that even if one slips from duty and commits a moral
error, however big it may be, it doesn’t mean that one has slipped out of
grace. One is given another chance. One needs only to be determined, to be
rightly situated in attitude.
I really liked some of the questions that followed after
the talk, including Adrian’s query.
Adrian is only 7 or 8, “How do you get real love?”
In short, I explained, “Generally if you give love, you’ll
get love.”
May the Source be with you!
8 KM
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