Every time I visit Guyana, I get treated to an all-exotic meal by Paramatma. Well, he does the planting and harvesting of the organic veggies and fruits. His good wife cooks them, or in the case of fruit, prepares it with flair. The year I walked Guyana, they hosted me to an unforgettable dinner. Last year he brought me to his farm and showed me his yield. Just this evening, after a lively padayatra procession in the streets, Paramatma told me of an incident in his orchard.
"I was using my brush-cutter when I accidentally sliced off a piece of an anaconda's tail. He was vengeful and reared up his head getting close to mine. I was in shock. He crawled away. Then just yesterday I saw him again. He looked as if to have an infected tail. He was no longer after me. You take risks." He went on. Anyway, the meal was to die for. You get mangoes and other fruits two seasons in the year.
Prior to the meal, I had a chance to speak to the crowd on this eleventh anniversary of Gaura-Nitai deity installation. At that occasion, I was asked to name the deities, just like I'm asked to pick out Vedic names for babies, initiates and deities. So I named them Parama Karuna Nitai Gaurasundar, in describing the two masters of kirtan from the 16th century and how they are merciful.
After our kirtan, I grouped together some of our part-time monks who were responding to my lead but in their own fashion, using shrill, high-pitched voices. Well, I told them to rehearse following the kirtan leader.
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