The little bar on the top right hand side of my mac tells me I only have 21% battery power left, and since I am at the temple and forgot my power cord this will actually be a short entry. We arrived back home last night, and this morning jumped right back into the thick of things. It was Easter (happy Easter everyone!) so I was woken up early (uhg) to hunt for our baskets of candy (yippee!) and that's pretty much what I had for breakfast. Then went back to bed, but was dragged out again when I decided to go to Swamiji's webinar today which was specially for youth. Well his version of youth ages 18-42. The webinar was one of the best I listened to for a while, from my point of view, it was really good. He talked about how millions of youth from around the world are addicted to the internet (so true!) and other stuff but the main thing that hit me was he said it would be good for all youth to go on a parivarajaka (not sure about that spelling) but from my point of view it's a journey one takes. A pilgrimage basically that isn't totally planned out and you just wander giving up the normal physical nessisties. I cannot remember if I have talked about it or not, but I have made arrangements to graduate from high school a year early and then spend a year in Ireland. But lately (even before the webinar) I got to thinking, I would really like to travel all over the world, but cut myself off with the question how. Money basically being the issue.
But Swamiji said to take a parivarajaka and if you lived in India to travel the length and breath of India, and i you lived elsewhere to travel the world learning about different cultures and traditions and just really living. Those words were all I needed, one more year of high school and then I will be 18 and I will do it. My first year as an official youth and I will do my parivarajaka. and I have a year to go, I'll figure out the money. So I've got 16% left and that's all for now. Bye!
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