I just heard about a week ago that the parliaments will end March 23 which means that Aaron and I will be going back home to Iowa.
We will leave the campus on March 27, fly to Delhi, and stay 2 nights, so we can shop and buy Kurtas and such. We will be flying home on the 31st of March.
I really don't want to leave India!
I will see everyone soon
Jai Guru Dev
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Sunday, March 5, 2006
Greetings from India!
I feel very blessed to be in India at this time and to have been invited by Bevan and Maharishi.
It was Bevans’s idea that I should come and join my dad. Bevan had to check with Maharishi first and the response was “of course he can come”.
The plane flight was 14 hours from Chicago straight to Delhi.
Aaron Hirshberg and I stayed in Delhi for two nights since there were no flights to Jabalpur until Thursday February 9th.
The next day Aaron and I went shopping for Kurtas and pajamas in the market near our hotel. The market was quite an experience, traffic didn't stop and horns honked constantly.
You have to be careful or you could get run over. Also, you shouldn’t put your arm out the window of any moving vehicle or you could risk loosing it.
The next day, we flew from Delhi to Jabalpur where a bus was waiting at the airport to take us to the Maharishi VidyaMandir (a Maharishi School). We stayed there for about 6 hours where we just relaxed after the flight.
They provided us food (chi, cookies, and Ruffles potato chips). The potato chips were great! In India, they don't make them with all the bad ingredients like they do in the US and they are not genetically engineered.
The kids at the Maharishi school were very sweet and even asked for our autographs (I felt like a famous person or rock star). While we were there we did some more shopping for Kurtas, ate at a vegetarian restaurant, and even played Frisbee with the Maharishi School kids.
In the afternoon a different school bus took us to the campus were we would be staying the next two months or maybe longer. The bus ride to the campus was quite long (about 2 hours or so). For some reason, it seemed longer to me. I think it's because we stopped a lot.
At one stop, I tried my first sip of Coca-Cola in India. It tasted great! Aaron purchased a big bottle of it to share with everyone (me, the bus driver and the Indian who came along with us) I noticed that every now and than, the bus driver would say "Coca-cola" so Aaron would have to get the bottle out and fill everyone's cup.
When we arrived at the campus, it was about 7:00 PM. The weather here (about 2 hours from Jabalpur) during the day is about 90 degrees and goes down to the low 60s at night.
The power here at the campus is quite unreliable. It can go off at just about anytime. We have Internet here. I just heard that our connection just got upgraded from our current one (512 mbps) to 2.7 mbps. It's quite fast now!
A typical day here includes long program in the morning in our rooms, lunch at 12:00, a parliament in the afternoon, then Rudra Bhishek yagya at around 3:00 PM which lasts for about 2-3 hours. After the yagya we do program again. The parliaments last for about 3 days and on the third day we get a day off.
I really enjoy the Indian food. The food is prepared in a kitchen under open flames. The chapattis and lassis here are excellent!
I spoke with my friend, Justin Cutter, who brought his Bansuri (bamboo) flute with him (I brought mine). Last week we got together and played a few Ragas. We played for about 45 minutes. The acoustics in his room were great! There was an echo in the room that made the flute sounds very full and made the experience incredible. When I walked out I felt as if I had been transformed.
This is all for now.
Wishing everyone all the best from the Brahmasthan of India.
Jai Guru Dev!
It was Bevans’s idea that I should come and join my dad. Bevan had to check with Maharishi first and the response was “of course he can come”.
The plane flight was 14 hours from Chicago straight to Delhi.
Aaron Hirshberg and I stayed in Delhi for two nights since there were no flights to Jabalpur until Thursday February 9th.
The next day Aaron and I went shopping for Kurtas and pajamas in the market near our hotel. The market was quite an experience, traffic didn't stop and horns honked constantly.
You have to be careful or you could get run over. Also, you shouldn’t put your arm out the window of any moving vehicle or you could risk loosing it.
The next day, we flew from Delhi to Jabalpur where a bus was waiting at the airport to take us to the Maharishi VidyaMandir (a Maharishi School). We stayed there for about 6 hours where we just relaxed after the flight.
They provided us food (chi, cookies, and Ruffles potato chips). The potato chips were great! In India, they don't make them with all the bad ingredients like they do in the US and they are not genetically engineered.
The kids at the Maharishi school were very sweet and even asked for our autographs (I felt like a famous person or rock star). While we were there we did some more shopping for Kurtas, ate at a vegetarian restaurant, and even played Frisbee with the Maharishi School kids.
In the afternoon a different school bus took us to the campus were we would be staying the next two months or maybe longer. The bus ride to the campus was quite long (about 2 hours or so). For some reason, it seemed longer to me. I think it's because we stopped a lot.
At one stop, I tried my first sip of Coca-Cola in India. It tasted great! Aaron purchased a big bottle of it to share with everyone (me, the bus driver and the Indian who came along with us) I noticed that every now and than, the bus driver would say "Coca-cola" so Aaron would have to get the bottle out and fill everyone's cup.
When we arrived at the campus, it was about 7:00 PM. The weather here (about 2 hours from Jabalpur) during the day is about 90 degrees and goes down to the low 60s at night.
The power here at the campus is quite unreliable. It can go off at just about anytime. We have Internet here. I just heard that our connection just got upgraded from our current one (512 mbps) to 2.7 mbps. It's quite fast now!
A typical day here includes long program in the morning in our rooms, lunch at 12:00, a parliament in the afternoon, then Rudra Bhishek yagya at around 3:00 PM which lasts for about 2-3 hours. After the yagya we do program again. The parliaments last for about 3 days and on the third day we get a day off.
I really enjoy the Indian food. The food is prepared in a kitchen under open flames. The chapattis and lassis here are excellent!
I spoke with my friend, Justin Cutter, who brought his Bansuri (bamboo) flute with him (I brought mine). Last week we got together and played a few Ragas. We played for about 45 minutes. The acoustics in his room were great! There was an echo in the room that made the flute sounds very full and made the experience incredible. When I walked out I felt as if I had been transformed.
This is all for now.
Wishing everyone all the best from the Brahmasthan of India.
Jai Guru Dev!
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