RAJU, WAS AN ELECTRONIC ENGINEER MANY YEARS BACK, BUT HE LEFT EVERYTHING TO FOLLOW THE PATH OF ENLIGHTEMENT HE LEFT NEPAL AND CAME TO HARIDWAR, IN THE HIMALAYAN VALLEY WHERE HE MET MATAJI.....
AT THE ENTRACE OF SHANTIKUND ASHRAM THERE IS AN AREA OF COSMIC GARDENS, VERY INTERESTING ...AND MATAJI TOOK THE LABOUR OF EXPLAINNING TO ME THE SYMBOLIC MEANINGS OF THEM .....IN BOTH SIDES ALONG THE WAY AS YOU ENTER THE ASHRAM, THE AREAS OF GARDEN ARE DISTRIBUTED, WITH SOME ANOTATIONS WHERE ONE CAN READ THE CHARACTERISTICS OF EACH PARCEL IN BOTANICAL AND COSMIC MEANING, AS HOW EACH PLANT IS RELATED WITH THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE HUMAN BODY AND THEIR THERAPEUTHIC APPLICATIONS.....

            IN SHANTIKUND, WHICH MEANS ´´garden of peace´´, JUST ACROSS THE WATERFALLS WHEN YOU CROSS THE LITLE RIVER BRIDGE, THERE IS A LITTLE DOOR , AS YOU ENTER YOU CAN READ ´´ the meditation cave´´, YOU ENTER IN A VERY DARK CAVE JUST ILUMINATED BY A CANDLE OF OIL AND THAT LIGHT IS POINTING THE HIMALAYAS MOUNTAINS RANGE, KAILASH THE HOUSE OF SHIVA......
THE MEDITATORS SIT VERY SILENTLY ON THE FLOOR IN THE LOTUS POSTURE AND FIX THE EYES IN THE LITLE LIGHT  CANDLE, BECOMING ONE WITH THE MOMENT, THE SACRED UNION, THAT CALM ALL THOUGHTS  AND SENSES....

               AN INDIAN GIRL IS SITTING AT MY SIDE , SHE CAN NOT RESIST THE CURIOSITY, HER NAME IS TRIVEDI METHA, FROM ADMEDABAH, SHE IS VISITING THE HIMALAYAS AREA FOR THE FIRST TIME, FOR FEW DAYS , SHE ARRIVED TODAY FROM VAKILVADI, IN MANINAGAR......SHE GAVE ME HER ADDRESS AND INVITED ME TO VISIT HER FAMILY ...SHE WAS VERY SURPRISE TO SEE A FOREIGNEER SO MUCH INTERESTED IN DEVOTIONAL PLACES IN INDIA AND FOR SURE SHE WISHED TO SPEAK WITH ME...
FIRST THING SHE ASKED ME WHEN SHE SAW MY NOTEBOOK OPEN , WAS TO ASK IF I WAS PAINTING THE HIMALAYAS , AND I SAID ...NO, NO....I AM NOT PAINTING THEM , I AM WRITTING THEM,......

     PEOPLE IN INDIA IS VERY COMMUNICATIVE AND FULL OF JOY, BUT THE MOST ..THEY APPRECIATE  IS DEVOTIONAL PEOPLE...
   AFTER THE EXPERIENCE , MATAJI AND ME  WENT TO ONE OF THE TEMPLES IN THE ASHRAM ....´´ the temple of mirrours´´
THIS MIRROURS ARE SET IN CIRCULAR WAY ....AS YOU STAR WALKING CIRCUMBALATING CLOCKWISE DIRECTION FEW TIMES YOU KEEP ON LOOKING AT YOUR OWN REFLECTION IN THE MIRROURS... THIS REFLECTIONS CHANGE DUE TO THE DIFFERENCE IN MIRROURS SO YOU CAN SEE YOUR REFLECTION DEPENDING THE MIRROUR YOU HAVE AT THAT MOMENT IN FRONTOF YOU...FOR EXAMPLE.... SOMETIMES YOU BECOME BIG, OR SAMLL, OR FAT, OR THING OR LARGE....AT THE SAME TIME YOU REPEAT THE MANTRA .....MANI OM ...MANI OM....MANI OM.....OH GOD LEAD ME TOWARDS YOU....MANI OM , MANI OM ,  MANI OM ....AND KEEP ON CIRCUMBALATING THE TEMPLE, YOU LOOK AT THE MIRROUR AND THEM YOU START LISTENING AN INTERIOR VOICE VERY CLEAR THAT SAYS TO YOU.....I AM YOUR REFLECTION, THE SAME AS YOU BODY GET REFLECTED  IN THE MIRROUR ....I AM YOUR BODY REFECTED IN THE MIRROUR AND THE  MIRROUR IS YOU ...BUT I EXIST IN YOU, THROUGHT YOU AND AT THE SAME TIME YOU ARE MY REFLECTION TOO...
THEM IS A MOMENT WHEN YOU FEEL YOU DONT REFLECT ANYLONGER , YOU DISAPPEAR FROM IT....
MATAJI EXPLAINS TO ME THAT EVERYTHING IN THIS PLANE HAS A REFECTION AND THAT ´´I´´ IS THE REFLECTION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT.-....

AFTER THE RITUAL WE WENT TO THE CEREMONY OF CHILDREN PRSENTATION TO MA LAXMI ...CHILDREN UNDER 5 ARE SHAVED AND BLESS PAINTING VEDIC SYMBOLS IN THEIR HEADS , SYMBOLISING THE SPIRITUAL OFFERING....

 
With MOTHER NARVADA PURI MAA

FROM SHANTIKUND WE TOOK A RICKSAW AND DROVE TWO KILOMETERS ..ARRIVING TO SHRI SHANTOSH PURI ASHRAM ...THERE GANGA PURI AND MOTHER NARVADA DEVI PURI MAA...INVITED US TO SIT AND SHARE THEIR HOLY SPACE ...SHARING A VERY HOLY AND INSPIRING CONVERSATION ...SHOWING US THE SAMADHI TEMPLE OF SHRI SHANTOSH PURI GURU ... A VERY BEAUTIFUL TEMPLE IN THE GARDEN OF THE ASHRAM...
AFTER A FEW HOURS, WE LEFT THE INCREDIBLE AND BLISSFUL EXPERIENCE AND TOOK A RICKSAW TO GET BACK TO RISHIKESH...

MOTHER GANGA

    MATAJI AND MYSELF SAT AT THE SIDE OF MOTHER GANGA, ENJOYING THE SORROUNDINGS  AND SHARING THE EXPERIENCES OF THE DAY...
SHE ALWAYS USE THE VERY MOMMENT TO TEACH SOMETHING, SO SHE STARTED TALKING....
......UNTILL THE INTERIOR  ENERGY DOESNT CHANGE, ONE CAN NOT DO ANYTHING WITH ONESELF...SHE WAS EXPLAINING ABOUT THE WORLD IN GENERAL....

SHE TALK ABOUT MOUNT ABBU IN RAJASTHAM, WHERE EXIST A WONDERFUL PLACE, ONLY FOR SADHUS MAS LADYS ...ASHRAM BRAHMAKUMARIS SAMAG ...ONE DAY WE WILL VISIT THAT AREA, SO YOU CAN EXPERIENCE AND FEEL THE ENERGY AND THE DEVOTION OF THAT PLACE.....SHE SAID ..SOMETIMES I GET LOST FOR FEW MONTHS AND I HAVE VISITED BRAHMAKUMARIS SAMAG , WHERE I HAVE GREAT WISE FRIENDS WAITING FOR US....

SWAMI MAHARAJ

´´DONT WALK OVER ME, WALK WITH ME, OTHERWAYS I WILL NOT WALK WITH YOU´´´....MATAJI...
BEFORE EATING WE WENT TO VISIT THE ASHRAM OF SWAMI MAHARAJ ...SHANTIS MASTER IN RISHIKESH...HE IS A VERY OLD SAINT VERY VENERATED IN INDIA WITH MANY FOLLOWERS...HE IS THE MASTER OF SHANTI MA....
WE ARRIVED EARLY, IT WAS 11 AM.. MATAJI SUGGESTED TO TAKE BATH IN GANGA MA..THEY WERE ONLY TWO METERS FROM THE ASHRAM ...WE SAT UNDER THE BAKULI TREE...THIS TREE HAS BIG POWERS AND A VERY POWERFUL COSMIC ENERGY TO GROW SPIRITUAL POWERS, AND SPECIALLY TO MAINTAIN THE MIND CONCENTRATED , IS FOR THIS REASON
THAT YOU CAN FIND A BAKULI TREE , NEAR THE SANCTUARIES, TEMPLES OR CAVES WHERE SAINTS ARE LIVING, THE SMALL WHITE FLOWERS SPEEL A VERY PECULIAR FRAGANCE THAT ENCHANT THE SENSES AND TAKES YOU TO SPECIAL STATES OF BLISS ...THAT IS WHY MATAJI AND ME SAT MANY TIMES UNDER BAKULI TREES, RELAXING AND ENERGETING OURSELVES...

Under the BAKULI tree ...

AFTER HAVING BATH IN GANGA MA, WE WENT BACK TO MEET SHRI MAHARAJ ...THE DIVINE GRACE  WANTED TO GIVE US THE GIFT OF SIT IN FRONT OF THE SAINT ...WE WERE IN HIS PRIVATE ROOM... SEATED IN FRONT OF HIM...SINGING BHAJANS...HE ASK ME SOME QUESTIONS AND MY ANSWERS MADE HIM VERY HAPPY ..AFTER A WHILE WE WENT WITH HIS BLESSINGS AND THE JOY TO HAVE BEEN SO GIFTED IN THE PRESENCE OF THIS GREAT MASTER....

MATAJI EXPLAINS TO ME .....PEOPLE IN THE WEST ARE ILOGICAL INSIDE BUT LOGICAL IN THE OUTER WAY OF ACTING ...
THE PERSONS IN INDIA ARE ILOGICAL OUTSIDE BUT LOGIC IN THE INTERIOR WAY OF ACTING ...THIS IS DUE TO THE GREEK PHILOSOPHERS TEACHINGS ..WESTEN ADOPTED , THIS LOGICAL WAY OF ANALIZING THAT IS WHY THEY WERE CONVERTED IN VERY LOGICAL IN THE EXTERNAL WORLD AND THE THINGS OF THE WORLD, LIKE CULTURE, WAY OF BEHAVING,WAY OF INTERACTING IN THE RELATIONSHIP ....BUT IN INDIA DUE TO THE SPIRITUAL WAY THEY ARE VERY DEEP INSIDE AND ACT FROM INSIDE TO OUTSIDE, AS THEY DO NOT WORK WITH THE MIND BUT WITH THE HEART.....
WESTERNERS WORK WITH THE MIND AND NOT WITH THE HEART....

With MATAJI KISHORIRASH

        AFTER A WHILE RESTING , WE WENT TO GONG MEDITATION , WALKED IN THE FOREST , FOLLOWING MATAJI AND WITOUT ASKING WHERE WE WERE GOING ...I ACHIEVED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE MASTERS CALL UNCONDITIONAL FAITH , AND TOTAL SURRENDER...THEY AFIRM THAT UNTILL THE DISCIPLE HAS NOT REALIZE CONSCIOUSSLY THAT TOTAL SURRENDER CAN NOT TEACH THE MASTER, WITHOUT THE TIES OF THE FIVE CAPAS THAT ENVOLVE THE SPIRIT AND DUE TO THAT CAN NOT AWAKE, THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST STEEPS ...FAITH AND TOTAL SURRENDER....
FOR MANY WESTERNESS THIS SOUNDS LIKE MANIPULATION OR STOP DOING WHAT ONE WANTS AND NOT HAVING CONTROL OVER THEIR OWN DECITIONS, BUT THAT IS THE BIGGEST MISTAKE, THAT IS WHY IT IS SO DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO BECOME FREE, BECAUSE THEY KEEP TIED TO THE EGO AND CAN NOT BE HUMBLE..
THEY BELIEVE THAT TO BE HUMBLE IS SYNONIMUS  OF BEEN WICK AND ON THE CONTRARY BEEN HUMBLE IS TO BE ÒWERFULL IN YOUR CONQUERING AND TO STOP BEEN ACTOR THAT IGET INVOLVE IN THE GAME OF LIFE ...TO BE OBSERVER TO STAY IN THE WORLD BUT OBSERVING FROM OUT THE PLAY GROUND WITHOUT GETTING INVOLVE IN THE SENSES THAT TRAP US IN THE SCENARY OF THE TRAGICOMIC EXISTENCE AND MAYA...

WE ARRIVED TO THE CAVE OF THE SAGE WITHOUT AGE ...WITHOUT NAME....
THIS OLD SADHU LIVED IN THE CAVE, SLEPT ON THE FLOOR  AND  HIS EYES WERE LIKE MILLIONS OF STARS SHINNING AT THE SAME TIME ....MATAJI DID NOT KNOW HIS NAME AND HIS AGE, AS HE NEVER MANIFESTED IT, AND AS SOON AS WE ARRIVED HE OFFERED TO US TWO MANGOES ...WHO KNOWS FROM WHERE....
HE WAS VERY SIMPLE IN HIS EXISTENCE AND HAD SPECIAL PREDILECTION FOR OUR SUDDEN VISITS , THAT MADE HIM SO JOYFUL...
I ASKED HIM A QUESTION THAT WA SMAKING ME THINK DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS AND IT WAS...WHY THE COWS CAN CAMP FREELY ALL OVER THE MOST INIMAGINABLE PLACES ....IN THE ASHRAM, OVER THE BRIDGES, IN THE RIVER, IN THE STREETS AND THE PEOPLE FROM INDIA WILL NOT FELL UNCONFORTABLE, BUT ON THE CONTRARY ...THEY VENERATED THEM IN THAT WAYAND THEY FELT PRIVILEGIOUS TO WALK IN BETWEEN THEM ....
MOVED BY THE INTEREST AND CURIOSITY TO KNOW WHICH WILL BE THE ANSWER AND THE REAL MOTIV OF THESE ADORATION I ASK THE WISE MAN OF BRIGHT EYES OF FIRE...

OM GANGA OM GANGA OM GANGA

      THE ANSWER TRANSFORMED ME , AS I NEVER COULD HAVE IMAGINE AN ANSWER SO DIFERENT OF MY WAY OF THINKING...
THE COWS, HE SAID, ARE THE ONLY ANIMAL IN HEARTH THAT EXPELLE OZONO GAS INTO THE ATMOSPHERE , WHICH IS VERY BENEFITIAL TO OXIGENE ALL THE BEINGS ALIVE AND HUMAN BEINGS AND FOR THE ECOLOGY OF THE UNIVERSE, AND THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS FOR WHAT ARE COWS VENERATED IN INDIA....THEY ARE CONSIDERED SAINTS...SACRED...
THE HIGHER ELEVATED SAINTS AND SAGES ..THOUSENDS OF YEARS AGO , IN DEEP STATES OF MEDITATION, NOTICED THAT FROM TREES AND THE SKIN OF COWS WAS COMMING OUT A SPECIAL GAS THAT WAS KEEPING THE EQUILIBRIUM OF THE UNIVERSE...

RAJU

      RAJU HAS ARRIVED TO VISIT US...FROM SHANTIKUND, IN HARIDWAR...LAST SUNDAY EVEN WE VISIEÇTED THE ASHRAM HE WAS NOT THERE...WE WENT TO VISIT KRIYA YOGA ASHRAM A VERY POWERFULL PLACE ....WE SAT AT THE CIRCULAR TEMPLE ,,,MEDITATED...UNDER BABAJIS GUIDANCE ....

SWAMI SHANKARANANDA GIRI

             THE MASTER IN CHARGE OF THE ASHRAM IS SHANKARANANDA GIRI KRIYA YOGA ...ONE FOREIGNER GIRL THAT WAS VISITING HIM, SAID......OH, SWAMIJI....YOU SPEAK SO FAST!!!! YOU SHULD NOT DRINK COFFE IN THE MORNINGS , ACCELRATES YOU A LOT!!....AND I CAN NOT FOLLOW YOU...IS SO FAST....AND SWAMIJI ANSWER OH , MY DEAR, THEM ..YOU SHOULD ALSO HAVE COFFE...LIKE THAT YOU WILL HAVE THE SAME RITHDOM...
AFTER THAT WE LEFT...HAVING BEEN SO LUCKY TO HAVE GOT THE BLESSINGS OF SWAMIJI.-...
THIS IS PART OF MY NEW COMMING BOOK SOON....
´´MISTERIOUS TRIP TO INDIA´´
BY PUSHPANJALI LACAVE

IT WILL CONTINUE...
NAMASTE TO ALL...