Holiday in Cairns

Posted On: Tue, 2008-06-17 21:40 by sitapati

Param Satya, Prahlad, and I took our first holiday in four years over the last week. We went up to Cairns to "hang loose and let off some steam".

From now on I'm operating by the principle Rick Warren shared in a recent conference:

Divert daily.
Withdraw weekly.
Abandon annually.

This was the annual abandoning of ship. Acyuta Bhava had gone up to Cairns to cook at Jagat-pati and Taruni's restaurant "Gaura Nitais", and she invited us to come up for a week while she was there.

Jagat-pati and Taruni are currently in Mexico at an alternative health hospital where Jagat-pati is receiving treatment for brain cancer. Western medical doctors had given up hope and sent him home to die. His wife is a real Aussie battler, however, and was having none of that. She sought out the best alternative health solution and took him over there. Taruni called on our last day in Cairns and said that Jagat-pati had made huge improvements and is now able to read Srila Prabhupada's books 2-3 hours a day again, after 18 months of not being able to read for more than a few minutes.

Natural holisitic medicine 1 | Western scientific medicine 0

We all die. It's about the quality of your life while you're alive, as much as the duration of your life.

What is the value of a prolonged life which is wasted, inexperienced by years in this world? Better a moment of full consciousness, because that gives one a start in searching after his supreme interest.

- Srimad Bhagavatam 2.1.12

While in Cairns we did Harinam on Friday, and the bi-weekly Sunday Feast program at the restaurant.

Apart from that we chanted in the morning, listened to a few of H.H. Hrdayananda das Goswami's 2002 lectures, and just hung out.

Clemens and Craig were also up there in Cairns. Craig, who is a local, took Clemens, Prahlad and I to a beautiful water hole where we did some swimming and sat around shooting the breeze.