Last night's Harinam was interesting. It seems like everytime I go to Hollywood for the harinam something always interesting happens. This time I saw people dressed up in different cartoon characters. These people do get paid for what they are doing. They ask for tips after you get their picture taken with them. The new characters I saw this time were Snow White, Woody from Toy Story, Zorro, and Cookie Monster from Sesame Street. Snow White and Dora the Explorer really loved our harinam kirtan. Especially Dora. She kept coming back to us and dancing with us. Snow White even tried getting Woody to dance with us too. Other people who were not dressed up even became ecstatic and joined in with dancing with us. Oh and I forgot to mention I also saw Batgirl too. I think Hollywood is pretty cool to do a harinam because you can see all kind of interesting people and best of all they can hear Krishna's Holy Names and get benefit for just hearing His Names.
Toward the end of the harinam I suddenly noticed that down this one street across the street, a whole bunch of people on bicycles came out. There were HUNDREDS of them! And they were riding their bikes right in the middle of heavy traffic on the street we were on! There must have been a bike Marathon or something.
And at the end of our kirtan it was really ecstatic. Most people go out to bars and get themselves drunk on a Saturday night. But us devotees? Well we do something a lot more fun and something that's better than getting drunk. We go out at night and throw a party for Krishna by chanting His Holy Names and dancing. that's what you call REALLY having a good time when you are remembering God and glorifying Him and not thinking about yourself but of Him.
These harinams are really inspiring me, and I love seeing different things happen at our harinams. Tomorrow is our Martin Luther King Day Ratha Yatra. I look foward to it and I hope that I can walk those 4 long miles without my back hurting me.
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