Last October I took a trip to France to visit a farm called New Mayapura. When we landed, the passengers were queuing up to deplane. I met Rick and his wife. In the small world we live in, our chat revealed that we both live on the same street in Toronto, which is Avenue Rd. Surprise!
Rick said, "I go by your temple every day. Now that we met I'll have to come by. I gave Rick a copy of, "The Saffron Path,", who expressed that he was an author himself. Well, Rick finally made it to our building, specially to our restaurant "Govinda's". I couldn't recognize him. It was a while ago but he spotted me and indeed loved our food which we call prasadam or blessed edibles.
When you have such excellent trekking weather such as what we encounter these days, sun and 19'C, it is irresistible to stretch the legs. I invited Sundar Chaitanya Swami to join through parks and streets. With two monks out there it creates an even more sensation but mid-way through I got a call and had to resort to a necessary meeting. So in a practical way one can get some physio in, tend to business and have some holy association all at the same time.
Sundar Swami then took to the Thursday Yoga engagement with the main feature being the chanting session but just before he departed I bumped into my old friend in the park, who during Covid, had a fresh joke for me each day. Today he had something to say about Einstein. Einstein, although a thoughtful person, did not consider himself an atheist or pantheist but once said, " I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists." We discussed.
Source: https://www.thewalkingmonk.net/post/with-another-monk
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