HOUSE IN THE EAST

Wednesday, April 29th, 2026

Boothbay, Maine

I like a man who treats his house like its his castle. Such is Moses AKA Moksha Das from Maine. Located a 45 minute drive from Portland’s airport, he has secured a beautiful wood-framed home, built in 1888, and takes pride in his dwelling which has a look typical of the east coast. He calls it Krishna House and in its inner sanctum is the temple, a room exclusively for worship, meditation and study for the Chief Himself, Lord Sri Krishna. This is where I’ll stay for more than a day before moving on to another section of New England.

At Moksha’s house is Govinda Sundari, who calls herself a Persian and Nityananda, also a visitor, but from Maine originally, as far as the physical self is concerned, because in the beginning we are all supposed to hail from a spirit world.

After a tasty lunch the group of us decided we have to get out of the house and hit the Atlantic shoreline nearby. It’s beautiful! The smoothed-out hard rock is appealing yet the dark drizzly dynamic restricted any hopes for a long promenade. Better that than nothing. Walking through three airports for the day does not cut it for some boost of pride in a significant number of footsteps. I went from Toronto to New York, then to Portland, Maine by flight and in between, some footsteps.

Today was a day happily spent with good company, where minutes were caught breathing in a salty air by the waters that took our guru over the ocean decades ago, just over 60 years ago, and to land me in a palatial house maintained by devotion.

I am lucky, I am blessed.

MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU

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