Great experience it always is taking that special 6:30 AM trek through the Ramsden green. Neighbours who do the same as we do (minus the meditation beads) are seeing us as regulars. We came to the children’s playground section of the park. I led them there. Anyone who knows me knows there is a time in the day where I want to be like a kid. At the playground is a small cabin resembling a wood cabin like the type a hermit might take shelter of. It was good connecting with it.
As the hours rolled out, so did the heat and the humidity. I did not go for a second walk until the evening as it was quite unbearable outside. Perhaps that’s why the numbers were less than usual at the Sunday Feast, but that wasn’t a deterrent for people to come. It was one of the most exuberant, sweaty dances I’ve ever seen.
At the class time, I outlined the whole history of the very first Ratha Yatra ever. At a distance of well over 2,000 kilometres, people of Dwarka set out for travel to the field of Kuruksetra to reunite with Mathura residents where Krishna was born. This occurred five millennia ago on a solar eclipse. Krishna arrived in this northern region along with brother, Balaram, and sister, Subhadra. Rites and festivities took place. People fasted, bathed, chanted mantras, danced, and mingled. At one point in the conversation with Krishna, the assembly of sages were surprised to hear Him suggest that it is due to these holy men that we will receive moksha (freedom). They were surprised that He would speak about Himself as an ordinary conditioned soul.
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