Jagat

I had the opportunity to meet Bhaktivedanta Srauti Maharaja, a French disciple of Bhaktivedanta Swami who subsequently took sannyasa from Narayan Maharaj and currently lives in Toulouse. He was recently told by Narayan Maharaj to expand his preaching in the French-speaking world and heard of opportunities in Quebec and so decided to come and have a look. We spent a couple of hours together talking Hari Katha, mostly at the Val-Morin yoga ashram in the Krishna temple. (Where Krishna still forlornly hangs on to his drooping flute in endless separation from Radha. Radha-virahita Krishna nahi mani ...) We shared Sanskrit verses, with him reciting the introduction to the Venu-gita... बर्हापीडं नटवरवपुः कर्णयोः कर्णिकारं विभ्रद्वासः कनककपिशं वैजयन्तीं च मालाम्। रन्ध्रान् वेणोर् अधरसुधया पूरयन् गोपवृन्दै- र्वृन्दारण्यं स्वपदरमणं प्राविशद् गीत-कीर्तिः॥ ...to which he gave a very sweet French translation. So in general we had a very nice, non-political sharing of Hari-katha. As is often the cas...