THAT'S LIFE

Wednesday, November 5th, 2025

Yorkville, Toronto

Dharma Prana is a loveable guy who spent the best years of his life serving the mission, especially in the area of book distribution.  These books that are published by Bhaktivedanta Book Trust are the most cherished material on the subject of self-actualization.  Dharma Prana is an outstanding devotee and disciple of the author of these fine books, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. 

Since the mid 80s, Dharma suffered from a stroke and has not been able to form whole sentences in his speech, however, his communication skills are just excellent.  He has sustained a Mr. Positive attitude for all these years, and that’s why he is so loved.

In recent months he was not able to keep to a functional level in our temple ashram and needed more support, so by the arrangement of his daughter, Karunika, and our local devotee care group, he has been staying in a nice facility on Yonge Street, a brief twenty minute walk from the ashram. 

I had the pleasure to visit him in the afternoon to touch base with him and encounter his good old jolly self.  Isana and I took to the visit where we chatted with him, chanted with him, and snacked on mixed nuts and bananas.  Isana and I also sang for him a round of “That’s Life!” and he had a laugh over that.  The theme of everyone’s life is that it’s not perfect, but you make “the best deal of a bad bargain,” Prabhupada used to say. 

This life in a human body is a boon for that actualization we mentioned, but during the process of that practice there are the dualities.

MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU

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