ISKCON Halifax

I would like to share with our read­ers some of the expe­ri­ences I have had with the Sun­day Feast in Hal­i­fax, and to spread the word of our grow­ing community.

Last Sun­day and the Sun­day before, our small but friendly gath­er­ing came together in accom­pany with the Hal­i­fax Bra­macharis (monks), who have been trav­el­ing on Sankir­tan (book dis­tri­b­u­tion, Vedic teach­ings, and med­i­ta­tion) – and for fur­ther train­ing in Bhakti Yoga. For the past few months my thoughts have been med­i­tat­ing on what the mean­ing of true friend­ship is, and how friend­ship con­nects every liv­ing being. Each and every liv­ing crea­ture on this planet hopes and wishes to con­nect with some­one – to let our­selves be free and vul­ner­a­ble to some­one dearly trusted on a soul­ful level. Often times we can become con­fused to what friend­ship truly means – allow­ing our­selves to cre­ate super­fi­cial bonds that can hold our hearts hostage in illu­sion. This in turn can cre­ate a fear­ful shell around who we really are, allow­ing us to live in favour of doing what easy and not what is right – to find those who will be able to pry open our self invented shell and to allow the wind of free­dom to flow in.

My thoughts, feel­ings, and fears of allow­ing such beau­ti­ful thing to hap­pen have dis­si­pated through­out my spir­i­tual jour­ney over the past cou­ple of years. I found myself no longer afraid to get to know who I truly was, a lov­ing sprit – I was no longer afraid to admit what I needed was true friend­ship, a friend­ship I was search­ing for my whole life. A friend in the heart and friends around me who I could con­nect to on such a level of devo­tion– whether it be spo­ken or unspo­ken friendships.

Krishna Con­scious gath­er­ings – such as the Sun­day Feast*– have helped me to recon­nect with the true mean­ing of friend­ship. It showed me a place where peo­ple of dif­fer­ent paths, views, beliefs, cul­tures and back­grounds can come together, real­iz­ing that in the end we all want and have the same thing in com­mon – want­ing to share, love and bridge the gap of lone­li­ness or soli­tude of every­day life. 

*Sun­day Feast: A weekly event where a warm and won­der­ful gath­er­ing of peo­ple get together to explore the ancient Vedic teach­ings of Bhakti Yoga. Includes Hare Krishna Maha-Mantra med­i­ta­tion, scrip­tural read­ings on the Bhagavad-Gita, and ends with a deli­cious veg­e­tar­ian feast.

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