Sunday 19 October 2014

Friday, October 10th, 2014

Val-des-Lacs, Quebec

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It takes some hours to reach this destination near the reputed Mount Tremblant in Quebec.  Unfortunately it was not on foot but cab, plane and car.  I had great company though, Vrinda from Winnipeg and Sahadeva from Calgary.  We travelled and wish listed much of the way over en route to partake in our annual Krishna Consciousness leaders meetings for Canada.
 
We had reached a rustic retreat place nestled in Laurentian Mountain territory.  Once we arrived and settled in I took note of remarks made by our guru, Srila Prabhupada, from an article recorded on Dec 1, 1966 in New York City.
 
Some significant points made are as follows:
 
Kirtan usually means describing.
 
Unless you hear you cannot describe
 
God has given you power of hearing,
 
The process to acquire knowledge is hearing.
 
There are two processes of knowledge, ascending and descending.
 
The ascending process means trying to go high by your (own) strength and the descending process means receiving the pure knowledge from above.
 
And we have four kinds of imperfectness - (the tendency) to commit mistakes, to be in illusion, our senses are imperfect, and the propensity to cheat.
 
Our attempt to understand the Absolute Truth by our faulty senses and experience is futile.  We must hear, sravanam.  That is the Vedic process.
 
May the Source be we with you!
 
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