Toronto, Ontario
The Ultimate Positive
It was awesome seeing snow move upward instead of the reverse. From Pape and Danforth I stepped west and onto the bridge that is set over the Don Valley, and I guess gusts of wind took the descending snow in the direction that challenges gravity. I wondered if anyone else noticed. Pedestrians, like myself, faced a mild rawness from winter wind, but I sensed from their faces that reaching their night destination was all that mattered. How the snow blew wasn't important.
There is a rush. It's Christmas! Hanukkah! Perhaps other holidays. In our tradition, Gita Jayanti is honoured on the 18th but that hasn't, as of yet, received the hype it deserves. In any event, people are in a hustle, a bustle and sometimes a tussle at this time of year, and I always feel that a soft snow's landing makes much of the city's-traffic noise mute. To a large extent, sounds are subdued. Silent night!
One thing, for sure, is the average person walking the street is full in thought, as am I. What the subjects of our thoughts are is what counts. For instance, in the Gita it is stated, in Chapter 8, Verses 5 and 6, that whatever you are filled with in thought determines your destiny. In particular, Verse 5 speaks of the preferential contemplation on Krishna, and that it is to His existence that we strive and hopefully arrive, due to a meditation on Him. https://www.instagram.com/p/BrSSjtVgbGw/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=3zw8srnhcwhd
This is definitely something to work on. The mind is a vessel that is never empty. It must be filled with the ultimate positive.
May the Source be with you!
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