22 years?
October 11, 2008
Reflection: Anywhere, everywhere
Bad riddle (courtesy of a Gurukuli from London)
Question: What is one part of you that grows as you get smaller??
Answer: Your age
That took us an entire ferry ride from London to France to figure out, I blame the word choice, smaller? is that even politically correct to say? The only people who get smaller are old women who have Scoliosis!
Just as the he began to sing, I thought I was going to struggle though another Bhagavatam class, the ones I have experienced my whole life; sastra and preaching, no real life insight no real life emotions, just straight textbook. But I was confused, because the lectures here have always been uplifting-but its just his singing! Sooo off-key, how could he sing so off and not notice himself?
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Singing, just as looks, can be a deceiving way to judge a person or judge a person’s thought…Duh.
It was a expansive lecture: American economy, Pralad Maharaj’s devotion to Krsna, the need to be learn to be dependent on Krsna, Tirupati Balaji, you name it this lecture covered it. I would like to share more but it is still digesting so I will rehash it on another day.
Why then was I so conditioned to thinking the class was going to drag on I can’t help but wonder…
The Srimad Bhagavatam is everything. Read just once and you are destined to reach Krsna. Read precisely and you will go back to Him!! Its so simple its complicated. Its so simple it seems impossible-it seems incomprehensible.
“Srimad Bhagavatam is as good as Krishna. They are identical.” -Srila Prabhupada
Being raised with Krsna Consciousness in my back pocket makes it easier for me to want to sit down on Him–and worse than squashing Him and throwing Him in the wash with my pants, is that I always forget He is always there. Always.
I have been feeling recently more than ever that I have wasted many years.
Yeah yeah I am still young but I have this endless feeling of catching up, regaining ground I should have crossed times ago to reach a firm stance–just the bottom of the hill.
Such realization is never a waste, you are not at the bottom of the hill baby you are on top, how many great souls, lament in this mood!!!!!!!!!
Just remember it’s in the present we want to be Krsna concious, we want Him now, not later!
Ok, gonna add the alternate side of ‘yo mamma…
The underside of the Giriraja mountain, contains all precious jeweled sitting places, with fragrant flower kunjas, with full waterfalls, with lotus flowers in full bloom, with full food grains for cows, with all necessities needed by any cowherd people- provided…..So, you are not on the bottom of the material hill, yo’s on the underside of Sri Giriraja Maharja…ki jai-o.
payang