These days I keep traveling most of the time, so I don’t always have time to write articles for the blog. However, as many have been asking me about this, I will start putting updates of my travels, interesting experiences and other thoughts on this blog as well…
The first experience I would like to share is one of about ten days ago:
Friday evening, it was around 8.30 PM, I once again found myself in a small village in a rural area in India. This time it was near Madanapalli, Andhra Pradesh, but it could have been anywhere else in India…
It had suddenly become colder than the last few days, and it had taken the villagers a little more time to come out of their huts and houses to attend the satsang. We walked around the village once, singing bhajans and inviting everyone to leave the comforts of their house & TV for an hour, to join us for the program…
Once our satsang started outside a small Shiva temple that the villagers were still constructing, more and more people were drawn out of their houses to come and see what was going on. Feeling a cool evening breeze against my face, smelling the fresh air of the village surroundings, and spending a few very personal moments with the local villagers that I had never met before up to an hour ago, made me feel so grateful!
We sang some bhajans (traditional songs), also in the local language, and I shared some knowledge with them, and told them about the value of their culture. At the end of the satsang half of them were dancing in a circle, in a traditional way that the younger generations might never learn…
I felt grateful… Grateful for the chance to share these moments with the people there, grateful for a chance to see and experience a life and culture that has already disappeared many years ago in many other parts of the world, and grateful for the life that I am living…
And the journey continues…
Swami Purnachaitanya in Andhra Pradesh
Thank u for sharing-I cud feel it
beautiful pic too