nose to the grindstone, lotus in hand
i have started to work on the malaria project. WORK! egads. but it is good.
we went on a quick trip to rajasthan to buy marble for the hospital and temple. there's a stretch outside of udaipur where there is nothing but marble shops as far as the eye can see. i now know far more than i ever wanted to about marble. highlights of that jaunt included an amazing cactus garden, giant ponds of lotus flowers (swamiji waded in thigh deep to pick one for me), and a visit to the biggest krishna temple in india. beautiful.
ashram life. we have taken our beds outside and made make-shift frames for mosquito nets so that we can sleep outside. what a surprise (at least to me), when the first morning we woke up at 3 to thousands of people jumping into the shipra for a holy bath. they continued steadily, more and more people pouring in, until 6 in the evening. there was probably half a million pilgrims.
a few days ago i went with swamiji to renew his passport in bhopal and we ended up on an epic adventure to visit sanchi. this is where the cremated remains of buddha are supposed to lie. a timely visit, as i think the celebration of buddha's enlightenment comes soon.... we also bought some fresh lotus roots, which they cooked for us at the ashram. very tasty!
two owls live here. they are very small and cute. they sometimes visit the ashram at night.
so i am happy. life is good.
we went on a quick trip to rajasthan to buy marble for the hospital and temple. there's a stretch outside of udaipur where there is nothing but marble shops as far as the eye can see. i now know far more than i ever wanted to about marble. highlights of that jaunt included an amazing cactus garden, giant ponds of lotus flowers (swamiji waded in thigh deep to pick one for me), and a visit to the biggest krishna temple in india. beautiful.
ashram life. we have taken our beds outside and made make-shift frames for mosquito nets so that we can sleep outside. what a surprise (at least to me), when the first morning we woke up at 3 to thousands of people jumping into the shipra for a holy bath. they continued steadily, more and more people pouring in, until 6 in the evening. there was probably half a million pilgrims.
a few days ago i went with swamiji to renew his passport in bhopal and we ended up on an epic adventure to visit sanchi. this is where the cremated remains of buddha are supposed to lie. a timely visit, as i think the celebration of buddha's enlightenment comes soon.... we also bought some fresh lotus roots, which they cooked for us at the ashram. very tasty!
two owls live here. they are very small and cute. they sometimes visit the ashram at night.
so i am happy. life is good.
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