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While returning by flight from Bangalore to Mumbai, I was allotted the window seat. I usually ask for the aisle seat so that I can get up and use the restroom when necessary without inconveniencing others. But on this day, the aisle seat was unavailable. My window seat happened to be in the last row at the rear end of the plane. From that seat’s window, I could see the wing of the plane spread out.
When the plane started off, I was praying and chanting with closed eyes. After some time, when the plane was high in the sky, I opened my eyes and looked out of the window. I was intrigued to see that the plane appeared to be moving at a leisurely pace, akin to a stroll.
When I looked down and caught sight of a city rushing behind far below, I got some sense of how fast the plane was moving. On enquiry, I came to know that its speed was over seven hundred miles per hour.
Because the sky is so vast, when we see the plane’s wing with the sky as the frame of reference, the plane’s high-speed motion appears to be leisurely. When the frame of reference changes to something far smaller, the speed is seen as super-fast.
As I contemplated how the frame of reference shapes our perception of things, my thoughts went to my favorite book – the Bhagavad-gita – and its description of how spiritual knowledge changes our frame of reference. The Gita (02.13) informs us of our spiritual identity and then (02.15) indicates the resulting change of vision: Seers of truth focus on the unchanging spiritual, beyond the changing material.
I was under some stress because of having multiple deadlines to meet. I had to prepare for a seminar series starting the next day at Bhaktivedanta hospital; I had to write one article and one reflection for BTG; I had to do sixty advance Gita-daily video recordings for the next two months when I would be traveling and wouldn’t have the facility to do video recordings; I had to edit and finalize my book on reincarnation which is my first book to be published by a mainstream publisher. And I had to do all this before my US trip began on 31st. And, of course, I had to take care of all the travel logistics too.
By seeing how my perception changed based on my frame of reference, it struck me that I was feeling stressed not so much because I had so many things to do but because I was seeing things with my frame of reference being the world, not Krishna. My chanting was not just another thing that I had to get done; it was an empowering practice for changing my frame of reference from the world to Krishna.
That thought inspired me to absorb myself in chanting intensely. And as the holy name entered deeper into me and I entered deeper into the holy name, I started feeling my stress fading out. […]
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