Life continues to ebb and flow after my last post, which was ages ago! School seemed to suddenly get intense, and the past week I had an attack of girl hormones. If any of my friends are currently reading this, I appreciate the fact your still my friends, I hope. :) in anycase, I'm back and... with a new entry.
Sunday November 30, 2009 7:30 am
We are driving on a nicely paved road, and along it are many monkeys jumping in thr trees, eating fruits, and grooming each other, and just exploring and hunting for more food. OK, last night when we opened our eyes after an intense meditation we gazed upon, what else do you call him? God. Swamiji was seated on a golden chair with maroon cushions, his hair down and flowing. He was dressed in a beautiful outfit that was an off white color and a garland of lotus flowers around his neck.
nine-ish am
Sorry I just stopped writing before I got to the good part. We stopped for breakfast, I had a nice crispy dosa. Alright so Swamiji, dressed like a prince, seated in his chair made of gold. Behind him from one side of the stage to another stretched a black cloth and it was painted with stars and some intricate blue clouds. Then there were sculpted out of foam and painted, some planets. Right above Swamiji was the sun, , it shined and flashed when the light hit it. It was one of the most beautiful sites in the world. He simply sat there, palms together, head slightly bowed, 3,000 people in amazement. We just gazed at him. Then as graceful as only a god can be, he lowered his hands, placed them on his knees, raised his hand, opened his eyes and smiled. He then gestured for darshan to start. 15 minutes passed and a fast beat song was turned on, people stood up and started to dance. After a few minutes (dancing as we did) we stacked up most of the chairs in our section, collected the head phones we had become partly attached to and partly despised. (they were used for our English translation process) and placed all our bags in a pile. Then we danced and danced to all sorts of different songs. Maybe after two hours Swamiji stood up, walked down the steps [of the stage] and started to dance. It was great, except there were around 1,000 people that grouped around him and I could not see. Me and Amrita clasped hands so as not to loose one another. First we tried to push our way in, then she picked me up, even though she is smaller so I could see for a few seconds. (he was gorgeous!) The next, I think ten minutes, was was utter chaos for us. At one point he seemed to hear our silent plees to see him because he climbed back on the stage and danced for ten to 15 more minutes. It was even more beautiful then him then him just sitting, there was one point where he totally was dancing Bollywood style. The rest of the night was amazing as well. We got darshan in a privet hall. At about 12:00 am we piled into a building [just a random college building] and slept all over the floor (guys downstairs, girls upstairs).
We were supposed to meet at 4:30 am, but no one set an alarm, so at five am Ma came running in the room, not quite screaming, but quietly yelling at us to wake up. We all simply pulled on sine clothes and a few people ran to the bathroom first, and we all piled back onto the bus.
Monday December 1, 2009 1:30 pm
I have quite a lot to tell, and almost no time to write, so I'll make an attempt to make this quick. When we got back yesterday to the ashram it was about 1:00 pm. We all went to our rooms, bathed, washed clothes, etc. Then we went to lunch. There I discovered a handful of IA (Inner Awakening) people were herem but none I knew. [There were a few Ohioans coming.] OK so then they made the announcment that we all needed to have our stuff packed and ready as we were all being moved to a resort. OK I don't feel like writing much (I am in a talkitive mood, not writing). So long story short I was sad to leave the ashram, but it turned out...
Tuesday December 2, 2009 5:50 am
OK so where did I leave off yesterday? Oh yes told me I had to leave the ashram at night sleep in a resort. Well I got a little annoyed, but got over it in about ten minutes and then just wjen all my stuff was packed and ready to load on the buses taking going to the resort, they announced a group of people were actually staying in the new half completed dorm. In the dorm there are four rooms (A, B, C, D) A and B are the two woman's dorms and C and D are the men's dorms. Really the dorms are pretty nice, more later.
1:15 pm
Well Inner Awakening has started! There are maybe 500 people? I did not get the exact count. We hav moved to the Raja Sabha to his word, all the LBE people are at the very back of the hall. Interestingly there are quite a few "younger" people here. So far I have met a 13 year old who does not really want to be here.
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