Moved back to my favourite guest house today. Moving into my favourite room tomorrow. Living at the ashram wasn't as peaceful as I had hoped. The living quarters were very near the main road and were very noisy. I felt a huge disconnect between the living area and the meditation hall and shrines. I much prefer living somewhere else and just visiting.
The nice thing was hot water! They had a solar tank on the roof of my building and I had two hot showers in three days. Having sun two out of three days was awesome, too. I love that I can appreciate the simple, basic things in life, like hot water and dry shoes. I've had dry shoes parts of two days out of ten. When they are warm and dry at the same time? Pure bliss!
Attended another bhajan event today. Oh how I love chanting to the Ma. We even chanted to Ganga Ma! All chanting is nice, but I noticed when I chant to the Ma, it's like all my cells get supercharged. Also attended a video satsang of Papaji's. It was very sweet :)
My right lens of my glasses fell into my bowl of fruit curd this morning at breakfast. Luckily, the tiny screw didn't fall out and go missing. I've hand tightened it as best as I can with my fingernail and followed up with a wee knife blade, but I'll feel better when I take a tiny screwdriver to it tomorrow. I'm borrowing one from a friend. It's good to have connections :)
Oh! I had tapenade today on a chapati! YUM!!! Sardines were substituted for anchovies, but I wouldn't know the difference. It was pure heaven. Life is good :)
There is a huge festival underway called Deepam. We are on Day 3:
Karthigai Deepam is the most sacred time of the year and ends with a beacon of fire being lit on the top of Sri Arunachala. It is always 10 days long: sometimes in November, sometimes in December depending on the calendar. Days 5 & 10 are the most important days.
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I was just thinking of the way things change. Things were so different when I met you, which wasn't so long ago.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of how IHG and I are considering moving to Israel, which doesn't have quite the level of creature comforts of the US but has a energetic unity that the US, as a whole, doesn't. And the odd fact that between the time we met and now, IHG has decided to become a Jew, which I never ever would have predicted, and is also on a path of religious study and change.
Life is very odd and surprising, which is a good thing.