Boston/Natick,
Champions Never Go to Sleep
From 72 Commonwealth in Boston at the ISKCON centre, Vivasvan and I set foot on the pathway of the Boulevard and headed west embarking on the first of many steps to cover about six states. On Facebook our pilgrimage project can be viewed under the heading, 'Walking For Our Teachers.' More broadly, this walk is significant in that we pay homage to the people who help us see and do what we could not before. More personally, we take to the road to recognize our own guru's work as he reached out and touched our hearts so that we can see the world by a different light.
We trekked
along Beacon St Centre St.
Fortunately,
at Wellesley we spotted a parallel road and switched. This was more like it. A
gentleman sitting at a park bench with newspaper in hand who was kind and
expressed he's deep into Zen recommended the new road that would take us to our
final steps - to the Town Hall
of Natick
Vivasvan
stuck by me all along up to this point before Vicky came to pick us up.
Interaction with people was mostly with a swift, "Hi!" but the most
precious remark came from a young chap who was climbing into a car with his two
companions after an all-nighter. Being the last to get in, he noticed the two
of us, raised his arms and said, "Champions never go to sleep!" It
was about 6:30 AM and my thought was that Arjuna, the famed warrior of the epic
"Mahabharat", was addressed by Krishna
as Gudakesh (conqueror of sleep). Well, we had our sleep alright. We
started early with our trekking because I believe heroes always rise early.
A second
but public and official kick-start to the walking happened after 3 PM today.
From the stage at Boston Commons, a send-off kirtan party led myself and
others to Commonwealth Pier where the whole Hare Krishna thing unofficially
started 50 years ago.
May the
Source be with you!
27 km/17 miles
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