chispa
Those who are fruitive laborers and philosophical speculators from time immemorial are constantly going and coming. Actually they do not attain ultimate salvation, for they do not surrender to Krsna.
-- Srila Prabhupada, Bhagavad Gita As It Is (8.26; purport)
For now I'm content playing the muse juggling for the king; tears and smile both painted on my face, but sparkle always in my eye.
Just outside my door, Surabhi the cow is grazing. Her bell jingles all night, and every so often she utters the word Om. I'm halfway through the Gita, my resting pulse is down to 41, and I've begun planning a software project to commence upon my return to the new world in late may.
Morocco, I think, on Wednesday.A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires -- that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is always still -- can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires.
-- Srila Prabhupada, Bhagavad Gita As It Is (2.70; translation)