Tuesday, August 6th 2024
Trois Riviere, Quebec
While in line at gate 8 at the Winnipeg Airport someone behind me tapped me on the shoulder. It was another traveller like me. He had a big smile on his face and held up a copy of “The Saffron Path” and said, “I picked this up the other day, on three quarters of the way through and enjoying it. Since you are the author and you happened to be here, I’m quite excited.”
He was on his way to another gate, another flight. My line was moving. We were called to have our boarding pass and ticket ready. He left. Of course, I was delighted about meeting him , brief as it was, and also elated that the contexts of the book inspired him. In fact I was flattered.
My book about pedestrian pastimes is meant to be a literary to bridge a reader to Krishna Consciousness. When I was in the Honolulu Airport late last year, I met amongst all these people on devices waiting for their zones to be called, a young man immersed in the Gita. A brief encounter it was, as I was heading for the plane but I was happy to see someone actually reading the real deal, The Gita : As It Is.
My flight from Winnipeg took me to Montreal. It was the end of the prairie blitz and I was contemplating the success of it, participating in festivals and reuniting with friends. Two of them were Daruka and billy, the bird.
My plane flew me over the longest province, Ontario, yet a usual zoom call pulled me in to discuss 7.28 from the great book, The Gita with Ontarions. Pertinent to the verse was another one of those classic question on spiritual life.
“Why is it some people tread along so smoothly in devotional practices while others find it more difficult.” The answer lies in the word “punya”- good deeds rendered in the past and this life. Those who find it more tough simply should associate with the inspired ones.
MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU!
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