Mahabhagavat Das SDA, 26 September 2020
Dear Devotees,
Hare Krishna!
Please kindly accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I pray that you are all well and in good health and spirits.
By your blessings I am able to participate in this Hare Krishna movement, despite my disqualifications. Thank you!
Summary:
26 Aug 2020 – Old City Hall
1 Sep 2020 – Old City Hall
3 Sep 2020 – Old Ciy Hall (With Sagar Vankwani)
7 Sep 2020 – Book distribution at Chinese Old Age Home in Markham
8 Sep 2020 – Old City Hall
10 Sep 2020 – Old City Hall (with Shanti, Ciaran, Nick, Anastasia, Chris)
15 Sep 2020 – Old City Hall
17 Sep 2020 – Old City Hall (with Bhakta Nick, Aruna Keshavi, Vitthal Bhakta)
Aug 21 – 18 Sep 2020 Online – Bhagavatam set distributed (plus more books)
25 Sep 2020 – Old City Hall
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Total 10 Outings
This online Sankirtan really works! I just write as I have been hearing, and then, often while I am asleep, someone finds what I wrote and reads it. Over the last 2 years thousands have read… Sometimes they request more information, sometimes they request books, and they are often secretly practicing Bhakti at home! One person took an entire Bhagavatam set after a few months of reading the Bhagavad Gita As It Is with me. One person invited me into a Chinese Old Age home where I was able to distribute all the Chinese books I had with me!
I am glad at my great good fortune to be going downtown thrice a week. Am able to go out at the end of the day at least twice a week.
Now I have caught the Harinam fever, and can’t wait to go out. Sometimes, I get the privilege of associating with devotees (especially Nick, he has been very kind to me), sometimes it is just me, my spiritual master and the disciplic succession encouraging me on. Sometimes it is difficult to get going, sometimes unexpected barriers stop me from going. I always have books with me, and no matter what, there are always amazing interactions.
There are people who smile
There are people who begin slapping their bodies in rhythm
There are people who dance
There are people who sing
There are people who clap
There are people who staaaaare
There are people who look as long as you don’t look back at them
There are people who look with tremendous interest (mostly little children)
There are people who take a book
There are people who give a donation
There are people who say “Haribol”
There are people who say “Radhe Radhe”
There are the people who scowl
There are people who frown
Then there are the people who don’t even notice (the most unfortunate of all) – it is not me they don’t notice, but they don’t notice Sri Harinam, their ONLY saviour!
The longer someone stays within earshot of the Harinam, I notice a clear difference come over them… sometimes, people intentionally miss a streetcar so they can hear more. Sometimes, agitated people calm down. Sometimes noisy people quieten down. Sometimes sad people visibly become happy. Many are curious, I am sure they will check us out.
Even though I have begun wearing a mask when outside, I note that many who would have otherwise stopped, don’t stop…. they just continue on.
But times will change. One day they will stop.
They will take the Harinam home with them, and the Harinam will take them home with Him.
People are repeatedly dying, again and again they are taking birth, again and again they are dying. This Harinam Sankirtan will change that trajectory, no more birth, death, old age, and disease, no more misery of any kind. The more Harinam there is in the world, the more fortunate the souls in this world will be, until everyone is fortunate, and then this world will be Vaikuntha.
My 2020 goal is 108 outings, and I have 78 left to go, with just 97 days left this year. Please bless me that I may humbly perform this service. I am very greedy for your blessings. In fact, I am 100% convinced that I can only go out on Harinam Sankirtan because of your blessings, because otherwise I am just a useless fool.
Praying to be always out on Harinam Sankirtan, or at least be in Harinam Sankirtan consciousness 24X7, this is my humble desire, though I must admit that unfortunate as I am, I still maintain all sorts of material attachments.
your servant,
Mahabhagavat Das
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