Shivangan Kolkata (Calcutta)

... they would also drape themselves seductively over the front of the stage and stretch and strut provocatively in a way that had nothing to do with their singing, which was mediocre at best. The business types handed them 100 rupee notes and the singers threw them over their shoulders with a great show of disdain; at the end of each number, a manager would scuttle out from the side of the stage, pick up the cash and then sit counting up while the ...

... How open are you to Grace? What is your readiness to receive it? ...to see it? ...to acknowledge it? What is your awareness of the Grace that has already come to you, of the grace that is coming to you at this moment? "Grace is expansive by its very nature. But its expansiveness depends on awareness. How often do you let Grace saturate your awareness? "Grace is magnetic by its very nature. Do you allow your awareness of Grace to fill your life, your mind ...

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 I go to Lokenath Temple every day by car at 3 o'clock with Baba. It is about 2 ½ miles from the condominium complex where I stay. The building is simple, attractively painted 4-story concrete with an open, flat roof from which you can enjoy the view. I would guess each floor to be about 1000-1100 square feet. To the north, northeast, and northwest, there are 3 good-sized bodies of water, and immediately to the NE is an empty, treed lot. (Baba says it ...

... underground tunnel



Another wooman with a child. It ssems like she has 2-3 more who are runnig around

While
you are walking through a street you can see a lot of people who sleep
under their tents with their children. First of all I thought they are
alcoholics or other kind of people who belong to lower social classes.
In Russia they are ...

... I don't want to say it but 'no', I'm pleased to see you/hear that, that's right, we are having a good time. A typical conversation between Sabatri and I involves me using ridiculous combinations of these words ("Nomoshkar Sabatri. Newspaper haa? Oh newspaper naa? Why newspaper naa? Er, newspaper haa breakfast, teakachay? Naa? Teakachay, newspaper dinner haa? Achay! No no wait, newspaper ever? (mime mime mime) Okay...newspaper breakfast dinner haa...haa? D'ohnobaad!") and a whole lot of ...

... Israeli's here in India keep saying "oh it's no big deal..it's not dangerous", and here in India no one is shocked when I tell them that I saw a man hit his wife. It's all so common and normalized it's sickening. Even myself, I find I am far more accustomed to things than I ever used to be. I walked by a dead dog the other day, with half of it's jaw bone exposed and it's body obviously in a state of decay..and I just shrugged and kept walking. You get used to these ...

... ends well. At the airport we are picked up and driven to our apartment. It is on the top floor of a building of mostly offices. It has two bedrooms, a kitchen, entry/dining room, one bathroom inside, one bathroom outside on the large deck, and a living room with ancient TV that takes at least 1/2 hour to warm up....remember those? We are happy as we can be. We are taken to the local market by two of Neil's office people and are taught the ...

... spotted a tiger and we all rushed to have a look. I managed to get a glimpse of its back half. I thought that would be it but was assured that if we hid in the tower it would come and drink from the fresh water pool. We waited for about 10 - 15 minutes and then through the forest I saw the outline of a tiger, and then the monitor lizard went straight into the water through fear of its life. Then it appeared in all its glory. It was a ...

... a rubbernecking manoeuvre worthy of a yogi. Realising he´d been caught in the act he tries to recover by initiating a conversation about sunglasses, saying his girlfriend had indicated she liked the one´s Louisa was wearing. The girl had obviously said nothing of the sort and her face sank into a deep scowl. We draw the conversation to a close, just in time for him to introduce the girl saying, "This is my girlfriend, I hope she is good." Don´t think he got ...

... Falschen g**aten. So gegen fuenf Uhr morgens lag ich dann endlich im Bett, das sich im Schlafsaal eines netten Guesthouses befindet und 75 Rupien kostet. Etwa 55 Rupien entsprechen einem Euro. Die Nacht war leid** viel zu frueh wied** vorueb**, da man sich an den La**m ein** asiatischen Grossstadt **st wied** gewoehnen muss. Und gest**n war Sonntag, es war also viel ruhig** als beispielsweise heute. Dafu** ist d** Sonntag ideal ...