One of the extra benefits of living in an ISKCON farm community, alongside the whole blissful daily practice of getting one step back closer to Godhead, is the many earthy service opportunities.
Before I came here, I had some semblance of an idea of what I was getting myself into, and a big part of that semblance was some serious association with my favorite animal species, the cow.
As Old Man Winter recedes, and it becomes less of an austerity to just simply step outside, I have found some very important time to do some serious cow seva, whether it's finding just the right "sweet spot" in the art of scratching our adorable bull calves Kesava and Madhava, or in joining our dearest Caitanya Bhagavat Prabhu in his daily seva amongst our herd of bovines in and around the ISCOWP barn.
First, let's meet some of our friends...
Balarama
Bhima
Gita
Caitanya Bhagavat
Caitanya Bhagavat has been taking care of our sublime collection of our ISCOWP family for many months now, and its one of the best services he has personally ever been a part of. Therefore, he makes it quite a joy to be with him, even more so than usual, which is saying a whole lot. As Prabhupada and Lord Caitanya have said, the cows live completely in the mode of goodness, and anyone who takes care of them is promoted to the mode of goodness.
Caitanya Bhagavat is a living example of this fact, and much more. He has such a transcendental lila with our four-legged friends that one who serves with him in this manner does nothing but strive to come to that same platform of soul-affirming association. He's a real inspiration.
Real love
Working the hay
More to come Thursday...
1 comment:
Good to see that you're turning into a cow herder, young Skywalker. Doop would be proud, he's been herding Columbians into a cargo truck for his immigration trip to America. He says that it's no small feat.
Other than that, things around here have been crazy. Drunk driving accident in HW killing 3 kids, crazy ex-hubby killing his wife on the corner of Lancaster and Sanilac. Crazy people...
I bought some new shoes cause I was getting sick of wearing my painted stained ones when I go out to places. Got some Nike Hayward's, Collegiate Green with Maize and White, something out of the ordinary.
Read your email you sent Dad, and hopefully closer into the Tigs season we should hit up a game. Good thing my job doesn't go past 5, since I can go to more games this year.
Anyways, hope the cows don't poop on you too soon. Have fun with that.
P.S. - This should probably read: "Join me as I pursue this most unusual and sublime course" and not "must".
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