Monday , June 17th 2024
Christie Pits, Toronto
It was quite joyful seeing the Amazon boxes outside my door. We tore into them to get to the contents and sure enough, there they were - the books I anticipated. It was my second publication - "The Walking Monk/ Poems. 1 "
The book is slim with a glossy jacket, one hundred fifty-five pages. It looks good. I thank Nitai Priya, the main editor who is getting married this week. There are different headings or sub-titles that fill the book - Heros, Social Issues, Walking Culture and Wisdom Wonder. It covers these topics, hence it covers a lot.
I get an author's bargain price on them, so a few copies have made it in the hands of people as complimentary. I pray that our guru, Srila Prabhupada, blesses this gift. Another unique thing about today is the honouring of Nirjal Ekadashi, a day for fasting from grain, but on this day, all food, even water. Austerity is the wealth of the brahmanas. Abstinence is not easy when it comes to a fast from those things that fuel us.
I abstained from abstaining today but kept grains off the menu. Nirjal is something I have achieved in the past, for instance, I walked the mountains in British Columbia on 50 kilometres with no food and H20. It is a triumph if you can do it.
After intense hours of the day I went for that needed walk off of Bloor. At the front of St. Paul's Trinity Church, there is this neat monk for sitting, so I took to chanting my evening gayatri mantra under a Saskatoon tree. In the middle of the mantra when a women come to one with camera in her hand. "Can I take a picture?" "Sure!" I said.
MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU!
7 km
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