Gauri Das: International Yoga day with Sruti Dharma Prabhu. Despite failing health and being hugely incapacitated, he shows endless gratitude to his carers. When asked how are you feeling he responds: ‘I doing well’ or ‘I’m comfortable’ or ‘with all of your help I’m doing wonderful’. Today his regular GP ran some tests, blood pressure, heart rate, and said ‘everything seems good today’. In our typical Hare Krishna way, I joked ‘well yes, considering the circumstances of our temporality in the material world’. And we both laughed. In our laughter I felt we acknowledged that beyond immediate wellbeing we are never free from our precarious situation as mortal beings. And being with Sruti Prabhu, that sense is ever so present and accepted. With that, I then announced ‘you’re looking very handsome today’ and clicked my camera catching that laughter one more time. This is a life of beauty, the outcome of bhakti yoga , the highest of all yoga practice. Hare Krishna.