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India Report: Running With Cows, Sandy's Live Report From Rajasthan

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margdevi	Posted: Feb 21 2007, 06:30 PM
Babaji.net Coordinator Group: Admin Posts: 333 Member No.: 2 Joined: 5-January 06	This is too good not to share! I am so 'homesick' for Mother India just reading it! India, to me, is always 'the best of times and the worst of times at the same time!' HA!!! I hope you enjoy this as much as I did! ONS Love, Marge Received at 12 noon central time on Feb. 21, 2007, via email: permission granted to SHARE!!! **************** Hi Sweet Marge, It's been amazing and hard as you know. Here's a peek into my day today. Well have to get together when I return for the details. Susie and I are trying to figure out how we want to journey back to New Delhi this weekend, by bus, car, train or plane. We leave from there on Sunday night. We would love to see some of the Rajastan Desert but the drives are all so long, not sure if we want the stress. We are thinking about going to Ashmere, four hours away, to visit the mosque of Sufi Saint Moundine Shishki (sp?) But haven't decided yet? I hear it's like a trip to Mecca. We started our day this morning with a 7am satsang with an Indian teacher who talked about the meaning of spritual and how it's the way we live in our everyday life and how we look at it. We met some people from the Prague that invited us. They've been visiting him once a year for 20 years. Impressive. It was our Jaipur guru experience. He was a sweet older man who gave teachings in his house. I loved it and at one point I was laughing inside that we were all the way in India listening to a man with an accent telling us that everyday life was spritual. It was cartoonish at one point, but a lovely experience. After that we went to Amber Fort about 1/2 hour in the desert. It was such a trek up to the fort once we got there, that we had the driver go as far as he could. Designer treking-up these huge, and I mean huge stairs, into an open court yard area where a movie crew was filming what looked to be a music video with gorgeous desert dancers. I got about 30 seconds on my small cannon video!! The view from the top of course was a spectacular vista of dome roofs and ruins. Everywhere we go we're acosted by people selling something or begging for money, it so gets frustrating. So at the fort a herd of men where trying to pull for our attention and I finally yelled (which hardly anyone here does) BLESS YOU!!! And ALL of them stepped back together in a moment of silence and then said back to us, as they were walking away, yes bless you mam. I've discovered this new mantra, Bless You, when anyone is begging or wanting to sell us something I wave my hands over them and say it loudly! It's worked almost 100% of the time. We went shopping on the way home in the village areas on the outer skirts of Jaipur. More rounds of yelling, mam mam real leather, real gold, look here...blah blah. However, I've found such beautful things for the center...(and us). This is shopping heaven. I think I should come each year, instead of trade shows for the center. It's really the way to do it. Next time you're coming too and bringing an extra bag. We have had to move hotels three times because they are so full here. It's wedding season. The astrologers give the auspicous days to marry so we saw maybe 20 of them each night as we were driving around. Not sure where we'll be tomorrow night as we have to move again! I feel like I've paid more in tips for carrying and moving my bags then the airfare. The hotels are beautiful palaces, except for the first one we stayed at with no hot water and boards for beds. The people here seem as if they are all one, like an ant colony or bee hive...hive minds. Even the drivers the way they weave in and out of monkeys, buses, cars, bikes and pedestrians...honking honking honking. In fact they ask everyone to honk so the other's know your approaching. It's so shocking that hardly anyone yells at each other. Truly they come so close to each other we could touch but rarely get in accidents or get mad. So different than we are in the states. I really do love being among so many animals and just walking along side of them. It's an unusual feeling, a natural calming feeling. They are mostly so docile. Even the elephants seem friendly. The cows are so sweet and look at you as they pass or just stand there. It's a rare culture, they really do feel like the people's spirit are one big force, the same Being in a way. Thinking together....driving together-pooping together! It's crazy, there are people (mostly men) pooping and peeing along the sides of the road. In fact, there are open stalls in the busy markets for men. You can them as you pass by as there are no stalls.....in the busy market! We'll pass a field with brick walls throughout and instead of hiding behind part of the wall to poop they'll be right out in the open for all to see them ...POOPING!! I have a hard enough time if I'm traveling and staying in a hotel or at someones home...let alone in the feild as cars drive by. Outrageous!!! Anyway, enough about pooping...I need to go take my laxitive and go to bed. Love you, Sandiji -------------------- "Walk on the High Path but follow No One." .....Babaji Truth-Simplicity-Love-Service Om Namah Shivaya skype: margdevi myspace: http://www.myspace.com/tslpeace

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