farewell (2)

 

13671931672?profile=RESIZE_584xOne of our most outstanding devotees was honoured today at his cremation at St. John’s Crematorium.  Vaishnava Das, AKA Willy Pillay, passed away on the 11th due to heart and other complications.  His life was full, complete, rich.  If you live life deeply as he did, you don’t die.  And Thoreau once said that if you see death as law, then that’s dignified and don’t see it as an accident.

 

I recall when he and his family, Janaki, wife, and three daughters first came to our temple to do what

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13529254084?profile=RESIZE_584xAt the airport, our drama group looked interesting to the staff in Visakhapatnam.  Some of us are white, some brown, and some black.  We’ve got the races more or less covered.  The devotees from Africa, in particular, are colourful in splash-coloured lungis.  Then, there’s me in my saffron.  One of the staff pulled out a camera, “We’ll use the photo as promotion, if you don’t mind?”

 
Of course, we don’t.  We look multi-cultural, and above all, somehow or another, the Krishna hint will come
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