Amrit Regency Dehradun

S K Ojha(62), retired manager SBI,travelled to Gujarat once again 19.09.2009 to 29.09.2009 via Delhi & Ahmadabad to see & experience the interior places like Palitana, Bagdana, Mahuva, UnchaKotda, Gopnath, Bhavanagar, Ghogha, Koliyak (NishkalankMahadev), Khodiyar Mata temple, Botad, Sarangpur Hanuman temple and ...

... an young<br>man who offered to help me in carrying my bag. He introduced as Krishna Murthy<br>Narayan hailing from a village near Silogi in Pauri Garhwal ever since his<br>South Indian grand father's time. He was now living in Dehra Dun as.an employee<br>of Income Tax Office . I introduced my self and talked about Dilip Nayak, now<br>the Income Tax ...

... and occasionally braving the cold water of the Ganges. Also spent a fair bit of time in the bookshop and its sister institution, the next door coffeeshop. Evasive friends: Mari and Helene, my usual companions, lived in three areas. Before settling in my own comfy, centrally located hotel, they first lived in an area half an hours walk away, and then lived in an ashram in Ram Jhula (also half an hours walk away). With no phones and a little consideration given to planning the next ...

... will leave it to your imagination...Lets just say I don't do all of them regularly and am not sure if I will do any of them once I leave here! 8:30 am: Walk across the courtyard to the yoga hall (very happy that I decided to move into the rooms the ashram rents out right across the way...short morning walk) for a lecture and 2 hour hatha yoga practice. Or, 2 and a half hour depending on who is teaching! Kush, our Indian teacher usually keeps us for longer. Each morning we start of with ...

... Vipassana to anyone who is fed up with getting beaten up by their own mind. Just be prepared to do some real work. I am not so sure I would recommend that you take a course in India, however. The retreat involved 10 days of Noble Silence. If we had any problems, we were supposed to talk to our teacher assistants. The women's teacher assistants spoke little to no English, and gestures often failed as well. The oldest woman sometimes spoke to us in streams of Hindi, though ...

... and stood at least ankle deep in the Ganga for 2 or 3 minutes. I begrudgingly did as I was told without the least expectation of any spiritual experience. Standing in the water, it felt as if I was standing in champagne, bubbly, soothing, refreshing.... It was very pleasant, nothing more. But when I stepped out of the river, I was completely ecstatic. Every cell of my body was literally singing with joy, so much that I skipped and sang my way back to the taxi ...

... du 30-40 km sans trop d'effort, ou simplement de garder sa propre moyenne mais sans effort aucun. Cela ne dure malheureusement jamais tres longtemps puisque les tracteurs couvrent rarement de longues distances depuis leur point d'appro jusqu'a leur point de livraison. Et attention a l'etat de la route car le moindre trou un peu trop grand peut s'averer bien dangereux! Une fois a Nagina, je cherche une gurdwara. Je me lutte un peu mais finit par la ...

... for a peaceful meditative environment. As the morning arrived the loud bell was erratically sounded to indicate the start of the 6:30 am yoga session. After the hour and a half session I would spend the day walking around exploring the city then returning for an afternoon session of meditation followed by more yoga. I fell into the habit of hand washing my clothes each night and my routine started to flow beautifully ...

... to dinner. The way she asked was kind of hesitant and it seemed like the other ladies in the visiting family pressured her into it. Either that or she felt bad after her rant about money after I said I didn't like to stress about it. The Indian food was good as always. We had a local dish that was jackfruit cooked as a vegetable and some cucumber sauce w/ veggies. After, they tried to put in a movie they bought on the road and it turns out the disk didn't work in the ...

Today we visited the Insitute for the Visually Impaired. Mari asked the questions "What's wrong with the word blind?" and we discussed ways in which his might be insensitive, but also that the Texas School for the Blind is called such. So we arrived at no definite answer to her questions. I found the Institute fascinating, what with my interest in the lesser-used senses. We saw Braille being typed by two blind secretaries as a ...