A Special Birthday This Year

My birthday was on a Wednesday November 9th and I turned 28. This year was a very special birthday.Why you may ask? Because my guru Maharaj was here on my birthday and I felt that i got some purification out of it not that I really deserved it but it was also Krishna's arrangement this time that I could be here in Toronto and with my guru Maharaj on my birthday. He was the first one to say happy birthday to me this year.
The  temple was short on help with cooking and Maharaj had volunteered to cook the breakfast and this was on the morning of my birthday. His cooking was great. I had two servings of what he made. He had made kitri and oatmeal and he had cut up some fruits and he made the best chapatis! They were tomato chapatis.

Then Maharaj had given class. He had given me his flower garland because he knew it was my birthday. Talk about mercy! And not only that later in the day at lunch I was sitting with Maharaj and a couple guests who he said are George Harrison fans. I was telling Maharaj that I felt I was in the wrong decade and the one guest said I probably was there in the past in my past life. Then Maharaj said to me that I will probably be finishing up in this life and go home back to Godhead back to Krishna and not have to come back here to this Earth. I was left stunned when he told me that. Back in Janurary Maharaj had said that if I keep doing what I am doing with my seva and sadhana that I'd go back home back to Krishna as well. So this was twice he has said this to me.I don't deserve to have this kind of mercy from him or blessings. I still have ego and tolerance issues to work on but Maharaj believes that that will get worked out in due course of time.

Over all it was a very quiet birthday. I did not have a party or anything which is fine because I really don't like being the center of attention and I don't want to be glorified for anything. I just don't want to get puffed up by that. My mom had sent me a birthday package that she likes to do every year for me My dad's side of the family got me a plane ticket to California so that was my birthday present from them.

I hope maybe I can be here again for my birthday but that is up to Krishna.