Day 6: Giriraj Dandavat Parikrama Musings
- “Today our goal is at least the Nrsimha Temple” a physically struggling me avers. Shea retorts, “The goal is to give 100% of the little percent that we have” or perhaps that we are ontologically.
- So minute we are as jivas, like .0001 percent of the Absolute (obviously not literally) and if we give 100% of that insignificant percent, we become like sprinkles on the cake! Certainly a cake doesn’t require sprinkles, but how attractive a cake becomes with sprinkles! We shine when we give 100% of our (ontological) insignificance to Krishna in vandanam.
- This meditation held me today.
- We paused as we watch the sun rise and illumine Govardhan. Shea tells me of an incident she perceived yesterday of a baby monkey with missing hands and feet (yikes). Utterly helpless it screamed out to its mother, and to hear that scream; the helplessness of it, the desperation, the need in it. “Like this we are to call for our Lord and Lady” Shea asserts.
- Why can’t I? The general spiritual disease is we are oblivious to our (true) necessity, as we pursue artificial “needs” impose by the guna-maya aspect of maya-sakti. This has been amplified in contemporary times as the beast of technology has powerfully disconnected us from our selves and each other as we’re sucked into a hyper-reality to be manipulated by algorithms programmed by God knows who. We hear theology/metaphysics of KC and are alerted to our root necessity, but then are confronted by our utter apathy to it; thus unable to cry like this monkey rather with the voice or the body (in vandanam).
- tad aśma-sāraṁ hṛdayaṁ batedaṁ…(SB 2.3.24) the “steel frame heart” utterly apathetic to Ultimate Beatitude, the implication of which is we become apathetic to even our own self (and it’s truest need)
- May this continuous baptism in the vraja dhuli cleanse me of my apathy.
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