Thursday, March 7th, 2013

Such Mercy!  

 

Mayapura, West Bengal

 

I did a solo as far as walking is concerned. No danger! No one here promotes smoking, sex, good physique, drinking or anything of the sort. You don't get those kind of billboards here in Mayapura, neither in the compound or directly outside. It's all just innocent village and farm life out here. You feel protected.

 

While pacing along I had been thinking of some lines from the play 'Dhruva' that we've been working so hard at. There's lines that you might consider to be signature lines like Narada Muni's "Is there some trouble in the palace?" Of course, in any royal quarters won't there be some disturbance?

And then we hear the saintly Suniti, mother of Dhruva, say "If someone gives you pain they will receive pain." And then the companion statement to that is, "If someone gives you joy, you will receive joy and they will as well." These are messages about karma.

 

In this contemplation I began to think about my own good fortune being so blessed with devotional life. Surely I didn't earn it. It has to be grace that put me here in this circumstance. For what could I possibly have done to be spending a month in this sweet, sweet place called Mayapura, a place of spiritual power, smooth and soft.

 

This is the home of Gaura, the golden avatar, Krishna incarnate. Here he was born. Here He established the dharma for the age - kirtan. He was centuries ahead of the now popular practice of mantra music. It all began here five centuries ago. And I'm here at the center of it all. Such Mercy!

 

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