Today was an interesting day and a relaxing one as you might say. The weather outside was very sunny but very chilly. I think it is going to warm up by the end of this week I hope.
I attended the morning program as I always do without fail. I love attending Mangal Aarti and seeing Krishna and His devotees. When one leaves the temple you can feel the difference. When you're out spending time with famil members who are not Krishna Conciousness you'd miss being in the temple. I know I do.
I also did my service as well from 9:30am till 12:30pm. My dad arrived shortly after that. He had brought my grandfather's bicycle. It's not that old of a bike and it's a mountain bike. My dad had to lower the seat and pump air into the tires for me. I think I will take the bike for a spin tomorrow after lunch. I found a shopping center today that I want to check out to see what's around in case I need to get something.
But anyways, before I left to visit with my dad, I went to grab some lunch prasadam. We had chinese prasadam for lunch yum! I love chinese food too. And it was not spicey at all thank goodness even the maha prasadam was awesome too. Not spicey. Just the way I like it. Thank you Krishna. Krishna has been so kind to me even though I don't deserve His kindness, but I totally welcome it.
My dad and I left the temple around 1:30pm and headed off for Venice Beach. It's not too far from the temple about 4 miles. It'd be a long bike ride there though. I'd be better off taking the bus there or something at least. It'd be nice to spend time at the beach and chant some rounds. I might just do that one of these days. Of course Venice Beach is not so great of a place as there are some pretty strange people around and homeless people as well. But it seems okay I don't think much really happens there. My dad and I walked up and down along the sidewalk where are these little shops. They are all pretty much the same. Dad said he wanted to watch the sun set at the beach so we did that. It got really cold after the sun had set. And before we headed back I saw a devotee! He was wearing a saffron dhoti. I was going to say Hare Krishna to him but he was too far away for him to hear me. That brightened my day seeing a devotee too at Venice Beach! Then I also saw a wall hanging picture cloth that looked very familiar. It was some sort of Goddess and I noticed Lord Siva was on it too. The lady told me it was Goddess Kali. I have seen pictures of Kali but not like this one which was why I did not recognize Goddess Kali. And I also saw another cloth wall hanging with they symbol "Om" on it. And Krishna says He is the symbol "Om". So I did see some KC things out on Venice Beach despite the other weird stuff they have there.
But my day out on the beach made me realize again how scary this Kail Yuga is because even my dad was saying there is a lot of crazy minded people out there and it will only get worse in the years to come.
I thank Krishna for letting me learn about Him in this life! I know I may have to come back here a few more times probably but hopefully not too many more...because this material world is scary! I hope Krishna will let me stay in His service in the lifetimes to come.
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