India Journal, Back again

Hey Readers! So after my crazy band blurb, I'm back again, completely sane, and not filled with adrenaline. As hurrican Sandy hits New York tonight, and the US election just one week away, I thought I'd stray from these topics to something a little more foreign, like 14 year old me in India.

Monday 23, November, 2009 5:45 am

    It's the time before yoga. There are a handful of people in Ananda Sabha, the rest are still in their rooms, or at the banyan tree. Almost everyone is laying down on their mats taking a post-waking up nap. Last night the schedule was spontaneously changed.  We were supposed to sit in on one of Swamiji's discourses and he was going to introduce all the heads to us, and then I think we were going to have a campfire session after that at night. When we went back to Ananda Sabha though we were told just to sit. We ended up watching a Swamiji discourse. I am sorry to say, I think I slept through a lot of it. OK so then we watched Kalpataru darshan and then a Bramacharya initiation. So many people got initiated, it was so amazing. Including many people I knew, one of them being my "older brother" Shakti Dharana. I put the older brother in quotations because he is not actually related to me, I just like to think he is. 

9:01 am

    OK so the final thing that happened last night that I forgot to mention, is after the bramacharya initiation, which took a pretty long time. Then some of the men started to dance, then five of us girls started up. Humsa, the main tech guy for LBE, turned on some faster beat music, and soon almost everyone was dancing, it was wonderful. OK I am going to stop now, because Swamiji is supposed to come soon. 

4:54 pm

    I just finished learning my Spanish grammer, during a tea break. I had my usual number of biscuits (cookies) which is basically a lot, and my cup of hot milk straight from the Goshala(cow shelter), with three spoons of sugar added. Now we are sitting in Ananda Sabha awaiting Swamiji's return. 

10:3? pm

    Us LBEs are sitting on straw mats circling a campfire, although (....)