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Monday, July 18, 2011

What is my true identity


I was at Ryerson University campus which is pretty much empty during summer time and quiet a 'mental challenge' to accept as a spot for sankirtan when its very close to crowded spots like Eaton centre etc. Going in, I could see some empty heads move through the empty streets of summmer time campus but it was my service that day to reach out to University students. So I found a narrow corridoor connected to the office where some students would go in and out of - I wasnt even sure if this was allowed. As i was there, a very young girl came out of the doors and somehow she stopped to talk to me. I started by showing her the perfection of yoga and asking her questions. AS we warmed up , she started to express her heartfelt genuine concern. She said - I was born in india, i grew up in Dubai till I was 10 and then past 8-9 years I am in Toronto. So what is my identity - am I Indian or am I Canadian as I relate myself as Canadian. Her question was a direct cut from the lecture I was hearing that morning from Devamrita Swami where he was explaining that our identities keep changing in the world, people have multiple citizenships and can even change things like gender in today's world. I quickly handed her a Bhagavad gita and repeated all I had heard in the lecture that morning. I was worried I was talking too much but she was right into it. Got her to do a little experiment that I had read in Searching for Vedic India to see her as different from her body and from her thoughts and emotions and asked her to look for the observer of all these and she could see the point. At one point she described when her eyes were closed she just saw black - so I asked her how did she see when eyes were closed ? And she became intrigued to know re her other senses. She took the Bhagavad gita and said that she would read it and I gave her my numer and invited her to Yoga meltdown this weekend. Later I was thinking I must have really bored her by all the talking, but somehow by Krishna's grace she actually came to the meltdown this weekend. Please pray that she can actually find the desire to study the Bhagavad gita cover to cover.

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