DAREDEVIL ANGELS

Saturday, November 15th, 2025

St. John's Newfoundland

Our extraordinary leader for the Krishna community here in St. John’s, demonstrated an inspiration that you don’t find in most individuals.  Before sunrise, Seeshan drives to George Pond near the famous Signal Hill and takes a serious dip through all weather conditions.  Perhaps ‘dip’ is misleading.  He spends minutes in the most frigid conditions, and it boosts his health tremendously.  When it is winter (which it soon will be), he takes his axe to break the ice surface, thus, exposing his beloved water.

This practice which he does religiously is not a new habit.  In Norway and neighbouring countries, a plunge into mountainous waters is a standard.  And is the in the books we read of ancient ways, yogis, and sages have shown their ascetic nature while in meditation, submerged in such lower temperatures of H₂0.

Seeshan is not the only local who engages in the daredevil swim.  There are a group that welcome the austerity.  After a successful two-hour walk on the Great Trail (formerly Trans-Canada Trail) to Mount Pearl, I met one of Seeshan’s co-dippers, if you will.  Her name is Taralyn (TL for short).  Just to appease my fascination over the practice, the two of them went for the plunge at a 5º Celsius temperature this afternoon.  She does it for her health.  When young, she had an unpleasant experience and almost drowned but overcame the situation through regular cold swimming.  She jokes that some people call her “The Axe Lady” for doing what Seeshan does in the winter. 

TL joined us in the evening kirtan session in that renovated garage we spoke about.  A nice group of us dove into the practice of mantra joy.  We felt cleansed.

MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU

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