In Light of Day

On the weekend I went on a casual walk on a local country road.  It was in the late evening, lit only by house lights, street lamps, and stars.  I took a course of a couple kilometres through two neighbouring villages here in Belgium.  It was quiet, but while passing an old barn there was a strange noise and awkward ambience.  The smell surrounding the place reminded me of a pig farm we would daily drive by back at home, sometime in my childhood.  There are no pigs in the area but I know the smell belongs to cattle for the slaughter, who wreak something special due to their selective diet.  I let the thought settle, continuing the walk, only to have a short flashback reminder on the return trip home. 

Too Many Birds with One Stone

Have you heard the saying “two birds with one stone”? 

Inconsistant Power

The lights are off and nobody’s home: a genius’s mind in sleep. 

Know Others, Know Thy Self

How do we view ourselves?  How do others view us?  Perception is such a tricky thing.  Do people perceive our body?  Our mind?  Our intellect?  Our materially acquired self?  Or our soul?  And what do we perceive?  We are one thing to ourselves and one thing to every other person.  No one person perceives us as we perceive ourselves and no one person perceives us the same as another.  

A Moment?

I was late to the Bhaktivedanta College Poetry Club.  All I could think about was how much exists in a moment, as the weather changes from sun to snow in the same day.  I had to be somewhere so quickly and so many things were moving in my mind. 

Hearing Beyond Knowledge (Lecture)

[A lecture given about the process of hearing being sufficient even without knowledge. This lecture was given in January 2013 at Radhadesh, Belgium.] 

Knowledge?

Don’t you ever get that feeling where you’ve been applying yourself to learn something and then you look back and think, what did I learn?  Or, where did it go that it’s no longer accessible in my mind?  Sometimes I study and study, thinking I real reach some climax of realization, and then I look back and it’s just “baaaaaaah?”  Considering that there are libraries full of books and our scale of reading is so little that it may span just one or perhaps a few more for some, how much do we really know?  And then the simple question comes up: is it even worthy knowledge?  Didn’t Upadesamrta tell us not to read too many books?  What books are material and what books are spiritual?  Mahabharata?  Puranas?  Are they interpolated?  

Lives of 3 Qualities (Lecture)

[A lecture about how the three modes of material consciousness can affect how you live this life or the next.] 

Turn!

Isn’t it funny how we can do EVERYTHING but the right thing? Whether it’s procrastinating from an essay (like I am right now) or avoiding our ascent to the spiritual plain.

Outside and Inside (Lecture)

[A lecture about the Supreme inside, instructing the soul in the world. Recorded in Radhadesh, Belgium in January 2013.]