Friday, June 24th,
2016
Vancouver, British
Colombia
Obligations to the
Guru
From time to time I
must jump off the trail and leave it to tend to the obligations of the guru.
One of my responsibilities is to visit centres of Krishna Consciousness
and provide a small inspiration. It goes
both ways. I also become inspired,
seeing various acts of devotion being expressed by communities attempting to
raise the consciousness amongst themselves.
In my humble efforts
to share this higher consciousness I like to greet people along the way, while
walking. Any small encouragement goes a
long way.
Today I did no
walking, but went to a community pool to swim and take a massage from a
professional therapist. I did reflect on
the previous day’s walk with the monks from Chicago. One of them, Mitch, asked me a question,
noticing that I like to greet people in the park by saying, “Hello!”
“Why?” he asked.
Coincidentally I had read, that very day, about a pastime involving our guru, Prabhupada, who interacted with public while walking. One student of his, Aniruddha, recalls:
“Why?” he asked.
Coincidentally I had read, that very day, about a pastime involving our guru, Prabhupada, who interacted with public while walking. One student of his, Aniruddha, recalls:
“We went on many
walks with Srila Prabhupada in San Francisco.
One of his favourite places was Stowe Lake. Every morning, the same woman would come with
her dog and Prabhupada would always say, ‘Hello, good morning, how are
you?’ And she’d smile. Prabhupada never said, ‘Hare Krishna.’ One of our godbrothers said, ‘Swami-ji, why
don’t you say Hare Krishna to her?’
Prabhupada said, ‘She would not say Hare Krishna back, but this way she
gets the benefit of giving respect to a saintly person.”
May the Source be
with you!
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