Monday, November 4th, 2024
Burnaby, British Columbia
Today is the day to honour Srila Prabhupada. On November 14th, 1977, he passed away and we are remembering him. Here is my offering, the same as the presentation I made on his birthday; I thought worth repeating:
Prabhupada, you have come to make a change,
And as we marvel at your awesome range
you intrigue us with your ability to bend
Having formulated a next east/west blend
We love you for this fair, inclusive approach
Letting us know that All can climb the coach
And engage in the incremental ladder of bhakti
When we make inner peace and sign a treaty
The treaty is between soul, brain, mind,sense
An alignment to set in a row like a fence
Directed to your divine feet and words
Feet to become humble, words to reach worlds
You left India for the shores of America
Where all is efficient, even to order a liquor
Now the west is becoming a state of chaos
Walls are defaced with something strong than crayons
But Bharat isn’t much prettier or better
The entire globe is a hole where lives the Mad Hatter
All people share the rabbit to lower depths
Existing like grim prisons of foul thought in breath.
Holy sites are nasty, and needing renovation
Sewage and plastics create a sad situation
Vices deposit in every remote, obscure corner
Regardless of where you go, you are a foreigner
It is hard to relate to our disjointed world
Will sanity ever settle when all has been hurled?
You taught the answer is in individual purging
And not through gratification or a useless merging
Your intervention has done it those you drafted
With your sweet logical persuasion, you have crafted
It encourages us to further clean up our act
To clean up our heart and as world that’s hacked
MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU!
10,000 steps
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