We have both settled in to the life and routine that revolves around ashram activity. There is devotional singing each morning and evening for around an hour to an hour and a half - it varies. The short 10 minute evening meditation in the small prayer hall (restricted to foreigners only) is astonishingly powerful. For a few days I felt something happening to my gut and despite homeopathics and ayurvedic pills the inevitable occurred. Without going into graphic detail, let's just say I maintained a strategic close proximity to the toilet for a day; and Cathy went and procured the India traveller's friend - Ofloxacin. Worked like a charm and the next day we were walking about the Saturday market purchasing some fresh produce to make a delicious salad in the room. I amused myself by thinking that if the American motto is "E Pluribus Unum", then the Indian one surely must be "E Coli Revengum".
I've always noticed how much more flexible I am with yoga postures after a cleanout like that, and today was no exception. Although slow to regain old flexibility, I am now able to do stretches I haven't done for a year. We are both doing a daily yoga program and it feels good.
Right now Cathy is fending off a bit of a cold - for several days it has been cloudy with showers and the occasional downpour. Certainly drops the temperature but makes it very humid. Bumped into a lovely Austrian couple I met 2 years ago down south at Kodaikanal, and 2 years before that at Arunachala. Small world.
At the latest we should remain here until next Saturday and try and visit Glenda's friend Jesse in Bangalore next Sunday. The fellow at the most modern internet cafe in town tells me that there is not sufficient bandwidth here to upload photos. Really it is a miracle it works at all. Om Shanti.
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hi hi
the latin el coli business goes right over my head, so was lost on this one ...
glad you are enjoying the ashram, how perfect a place to be
we've had a wonderful salsa night complete with four days of 35 degrees each day so we sweated suitaby. we danced all night and got home at 5am it was fun.... a group gathered at pete and debs for bacon and eggs for brunch and then melted down the butchers creek water hole for the rest of the day rather civilised
and the community cleared up just as it had helped get it together .... over the last few days people have rocked up and done their bit so all is well
and the funkhouse band is playing at the buchan pub on saturday night which is fun also
on a serious side i have a cough and a full head which i am downing licorice root to help with
much love and love to India for me, touch the Ganga for me at some stage would you?
big hugs
Julia and love from Ian
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