on the first ekadasi of the month the thakuras wear this outfit flowers on the mango, blue and yellow this darsana gives such benefit leis of full roses arranged so marvelously following the movements of their dance charmoniously cycle babble and i were almost caught up in a race among the team till we heard the thakura's voice giving us the signal that the ceremony of the bells was coming soon sprinting down the beach hill around the bout with such a thrill past the shop hearing the whalers sing watching as some skaters performing as if on a string up the winding road offering respect to ratha-bhojana-vrksa who lightens our load bunnies welcome us back and murka rings the bell kirtan goes on intoxicated by the incense smell in the evening red chinese silk mixed with white silk creamy as fresh cow's milk