Back in the USA after six months abroad, the iMonk returns to the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Seva Ashram, the Arcadian retreat nestled in the quiet rolling hills of Soquel, California.
Week 1
USA: California: Santa Cruz
Keeping it real
What do these people know about yoga? They have reduced it to a physical
travesty! But what we are giving is real: bhakti yoga.
Week 2
USA: California: Foster City
Reaching out
These little nama-sangha (spiritual outreach) programs provide a
cozy setting to enliven and be enlivened by the devotees.
Week 3
USA: California: Soquel
The path not taken
The iMonk is reminded of D.H. Lawrence's dilemma in the poem,
Snake, when he encounters this inscrutable creature in his
path.
Week 4+
USA: California: Soquel
Rats!
We are forced to do so many horrible things — often against our
will — just to have a reasonably comfortable existence...
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— October 30th, 2005.