Holi Bearing Down on Us
I feel like Krishna on the eve of the Indra yajna. What's going on? The goshala has been turned into a multi-stove kitchen. A mountain of giant pots stands in a pool of water, glistening in preparation for the cooking marathon that will fill the next 24 hours. A truckload of vegetables and rice bags and others sacks of raw materials pulled up as I was walking through the courtyard. Tomorrow is the anniversary of Babaji's being awarded the Mahant title by the local sadhu samaj. One of the annual duties of a Mahant s to hold a bhandara for the Vrindavan sadhus. March 18 is the annual date of this event, which for some reason is not determined by tithi. I am predicting that this year there will be more around due to the Kumbha Mela going on at the same time and possibly also because the Bhagavata Niwas situation has been somewhat alleviated and so relations with the Gaudiya samaj have improved for Babaji. One way or another, Babaji's stature is rising, primarily because he ...