January20th, 2007
Patita Pavana Jagannatha in Puri
There is time to waste when one does not have an ideal:what to speak of a spiritual objective in life!!! So many people use money and time only in pursuit of worldly pleasure. For a transcendentalist this is not different than suicide.
My return here to Gopinatha dham, after three months in India, meant returning to a still far from finished project.Two large rooms are awaiting our hard work to complete. Sri Radha Raman, who remained here, working in my absence, showed me what had been done.
Rob removed an enormous metal fireplace. He climbed the roof to pull down [brick by brick] the chimney.Now neatly tiled, one would never know what was there before.
An artistic friend, Merrik painted the entry and exit to the Puri section. It looks so real that Rob's friends thought it was stone.
We've set up another workplace at the end of the house, to prepare the articles I purchased in India for displays. I'm reading books on graphics to try and learn enough to design the many informational posters yet to be made.
We looked into lighting systems which use sensors and remote controls to create special effects.We will see what we can afford.
So much still to be done. Somehow we have to complete the work.
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The Cakra
Here is a nice finish to this post.
Every Vaisnava temple in India has a cakra on the top so that by seeing the cakra and offering respect, one is considered to be offering respects to the Lord Himself. This is the Cakra atop the Jagannatha temple in Puri.
When in Puri I found a solid brass cakra and brought it back to Perth. Now Rob is making a place for the cakra above the entry arch.Later we shall install it...
Oh dear,everything in it's own time!!!!
It's late, more tomorrow.Needless to say I will continue to post short essays on different places of my travels, alongside news from Gopinatha dham.
Hare Krishna and goodnight.
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