I enrolled for a series of classes on the Sri Isopanisad, a few weeks ago, but was unable to go, as paying attention for even twenty minutes would cause my brain to buckle and take a week to recover! But by yesterday evening I felt so much better that I decided to go just for the first hour - ease myself in gradually. Ha! I did so well that I not only stayed for the whole two hours, but was the last to leave, having stayed to clarify a point that came up in the class - and returned home fresh as a daisy. This is progress indeed!
It was a rewarding effort - the speaker is a learned young man, just finishing his PhD on the works of the Gaudiya-Vaishnava poet Kavi Karnapura, and he illuminated the rather difficult section so well that several points which have eluded me for years finally became clear. Ifelt the gravity, the thrill and the challenge of hearing and trying to absorb this 'transcendental' knowledge - the call to a higher mode of behaviour and thought.
And that after a full day, cooking lunch, taking photos, going for a cycle-ride. I'm sort of frightened to feel too pleased lest it might tempt fate to put the boot in again. But that is silly. Naturally, anything can happen in life, but we can't stop trying and planning for all that, otherwise we'd waste what opportunities we have.
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