This was a very inspiring day, one where we were commemorating the birth anniversary of one of our outstanding teachers in the bhakti lineage, Madhavacharya. He was a great scholar who challenged the philosophy of Mayavada with his doctrine on dvaita, personalism. He was born in 1238 and passed away in 1317.
It was perfect to be outside in the joy of the day as we had scheduled a visit to the spectacular Scarborough Bluffs. Our Bhakti Academy trainees and I took a brisk walk by the shores of massive Lake Ontario to bond between each other and all that nature provides. We looked at sumac, chicory, Russian olive trees, wild grapes, chokecherries, poison ivy, pines, maple, oaks, cedars and swamps.
It was just great to bump into Manoharini, a god-sibling, and her husband Bill. They located, in the shade, an ideal spot for kirtan with a guitar on the sand, so we indulged. How sublime that was!
One of the boys remarked on the paradise nature of the situation, “If the material world is a reflection of the spiritual world, then I wonder how super-excellent that spiritual world is, when this place is so special.”
With the outing over, I jumped into a weekly Zoom class on the Gita, 3.33. The message is powerful, about acknowledgment of one’s psychophysical nature and then channeling that in the service of the Lord.
Source: http://thewalkingmonk.blogspot.com/2022/10/tuesday-october-4-2022.html
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