Toronto, Ontario
The Together Path
Our visiting guest speaker for the last few days at the ashram is Vaisesika from California, and he relayed to us this morning about walking at the popular pilgrimage site, Govardhan Hill, in India. We are looking at a good four hour trek, clockwise, around the mound that is known to have been mystically elevated by Krishna in His younger years.
Vaisesika described how he came out of his retreat which is located at the parikrama path and felt a particular fatigue one morning. He was feeling unsure about whether he was going to make the whole revolution around the hill or not. During a state of apprehension, a sanyassi (monk) whizzed by him. He was going at a good clip. This ‘pull’ encouraged Vaisesika who decided to follow the pace of the monk. Once he picked up the momentum, he found it easy to continue and completed his walk.
Vaisesika recalled this occurrence to illustrate how helpful it is in life when acquiring strength from others. It is a hard task to tackle the world in solo. It’s foolish to think one can succeed in singular effort.
May the Source be with you!
5 KM
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