Acceptance
Day 3 – 22nd April 2018
Imagine you have a lemon in your hand, you cut it in half
and then squeeze the juice out of it in order to delight yourself with its
refreshing taste and extraordinary qualities.
This is more or less what happened to us while in Benares –
another name for Varanasi.
It’s the second day here and the Schedule for the event we
have been invited to attend remains unclear. No one in the organization has any
idea when we will be going to the exhibition hall, where there are supposed to be
some talks and I am supposed to speak at one supposedly about creative ways for
the hand-loom weavers to get their message further.
Today it is also fashion show day and
our new friend, the renowned designer Amit Talwar will be busy all day
preparing the beautiful group of young girls and boys who have just arrived for
breakfast.
Not knowing our next steps leaves us with plenty of
unexpected time. It’s like finding a time pouch hidden in the treasure chest of
this so far beautiful day.
I look at the inviting pool in the garden and it seems to me
like the most immediate best option. It is over 40º C here and going out for a
tour would not only compromise our presence at the Exhibition, since we have no
timetable to guide our steps, but is also heavy duty with the heat making it
hard to function outside. So the pool it is.
There is no one here, which offers this entire space to my
grateful self. The pool has these beautiful blue flowers designed on the floor,
like a silk handloomed stole and I start dancing around them, dancing in the
water, with the soft breeze and the scent of fresh grass, admiring the sky’s
impeccable clarity and the trees’ abundant foliage, round and round as joyful
peace bubbles up from my belly all the way to my head, in a daze of pure bliss.
Pedro comes down a while later and we both enjoy the water’s
soothing touch as it melts away the heat and brings us to a place of joyful
serenity.
Amidst this beautiful scenario my inner voice whispers: Choosing
to embrace Life in Blissful Gratitude will inevitably lead to permanent
Grateful Bliss.
And so it is.
The day flows on languidly as we wait for the time to come
in the comfort of the Gateway Hotel Ganges’s 5 star amenities. The strangest
yet most relaxing thing is, however, not knowing when the time we are waiting
for is!
It is almost 3 pm and I decide to go downstairs to see
whether there is any sign of us imminently moving somewhere. Nothing.
I ask whether lunch is still being served and apparently, if
we come right now, we can still enjoy it.
Mansi Mahajan (WEF's outstanding on-stage host) and her husband Byron also
have the same idea and this is how we meet these absoluely amazing Soul Brother
and Sister whom we connect with immediately. It’s as if our Souls had been
waiting for this moment to celebrate our reunion and thus our lunch is indeed a
delicious and bountiful celebration – life overjoyed to serve us its very best
moments.
At around 5 pm Amit comes in. He’s been rehearsing with the
young models all day and apparently has just come back to refresh himself
before going back. This is our chance to finally go to the venue, where we will
after all be seeing the Silk Sari fashion show. We actually go in the same car as a
load of absolutely stunning Saris and cerimonial dresses so we are lavishly
accompanied, or are we the ones escorting these precious garbs? One way or
another we are on our way.
The stage, the chairs, the lights, the sound, eveything
seems to be ready to start at 6 pm but alas 7pm strikes and we are all still
waiting.
Meanwhile we entertain ourselves in conversation with our
fellow attendees and eventually the time we had no idea about gracefully presents
itself.
Beauty. Amazing, breathtaking beauty files before our eyes
for hours. Each attire is special and just being there, sitting in silent
appreciation of this outstanding profusion of sparkling colour, flowing like
satin smoke before my eyes, is like opening Ali Ba Ba’s Cave and finding his
treasure intact. Wow!
There are more and more and more models and after about 3
hours the public starts to become gittery, hungry and not so receptive, despite
the abundant beauty.
Round about 11 pm we leave with some other guests and right
when we think we are going to the Hotel to rest, we find out we are still being
taken to dinner! And so be it.
It is a rather quick occasion, since everyone is by now
feeling tired but there is still opportunity to meet some more fantastic people
and have some more interesting conversations.
There’s this thing about India, that one can have a deeply
meaningful conversation with just about anyone. This is another one of the things about
this glorious country that fascinates me.
Well the day has come to an end. A peculiar one, indeed, but
filled with exquisite surprises.
A sublime artistic moment before the Fashion show...
💙💚💛💜
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