In my own little old life I keep in mind that the essential action in the Bhagavad Gita is that God gives the spiritual seeker a vision of God  and that vision is transformative, transforming the seeker into a knower.  I was lucky. I had a vision of God when I was fifteen, on a bike riding date with Walter Spiegel in Van Cortlandt Park in The Bronx.  The day was perfect. The park in Spring was glorious. The air was fresh, divine. We had biked for hours and finally just lay our bodies and our bikes down to rest.

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