Choosing Love – Thank you Mother India/ Part 4

Moving on

Day 4 –  23rd April 2018

 The morning awakens in slow motion and once again we get to enjoy breakfast with our new friends and meet more. 

One of them is the Green Man of India – Abdul Ghani  – who tells us amazing stories about the Green School he works at in Kerala and his Tree Ambulance and the way he came out of banking to dedicate himself to social change and to teaching about ecological sustainability and upscaling.

There are so many fascinating people out there! Yes, there is a lot of not so good stuff going on in the world, but on the other hand there is also so much going on as a consequence of this – so many people testing their Love limits and going beyond what was thought possible in order to bring about positive and constructive change.

Existence and its Universal Wisdom functions in such a poignant and I must say perfect way in order to bring about Gratitude, Love, Joy, Harmony, Balance, Peace, Respect, Generosity… to bring about the gifts of Isness into each heart, each life, that though our judgemental Mind wants to keep on criticizing all that is “out of order”, it is exactly this seeming “chaos” that births God in each One. 

Earth is a challenging but masterful University, where we all get to learn what we are ready to embrace. And the most mind-boggling thing is that every single one of us gets to experience the exact reality that serves our level of counsciousness, life creating a scale of exactly appropriate proportions in order to ensure evolution and expansion, like the ebb and flow of the waves in an ocean of possibilities so vast it cannot be comprehended by the Human Ego.

As the Universe keeps its endless dance of existence gracefully moving on, all of us back at the Gateway Hotel Ganges are waiting around in the lobby, once again not knowing exactly when we are leaving for the “Conference” Hall. It was to be at 10.30 am but now it’s apparently at 11.30 am which in fact turns out to be 12.30.

I do not get to speak after all, which is actually great so I get to appreciate everyone’s contribution on stage fully.

Amit Talwar and Abdul Ghani

Speeches, Awards, lunch and a visit to the recently inaugurated Exhibition, which holds absolutely stunning pieces of local arts and crafts. Our hearts are full and overflowing and we don't really feel we missed anything, as in - we are content with all we have received and not longing for anything we could have done.

Ah, and I have not told you about the Exhibition where local hand-loom weavers are showcasing the most delicately woven stoles, saris, dresses... The aesthetic proportions of Indian clothing, the combination of colours, textures, transparencies and opacities, the sheer joy they radiate, intricate, royal, the almost ethereal beauty is a sensual feast for the eyes that speaks directly to the Soul. I am in complete awe, deeply grateful to have this opportunity to behold such creative grandness.

Thank you and again and again THANK YOU!

Blessed be this entire experience. Namasté!

Fulfilled and at the end of this part of our journey, we still have two hours left before our train takes us to Khajuraho, where we will be spending around 2 days.

We eventually head back to the Hotel where everyone is leaving or has left already and we just thankfully sit on a comfortable sofa in the lobby's freshness, waiting until it’s time to come out onto the street and get a Tuc Tuc to the station.

When we arrive it is the usual hustle and bustle of train stations in India with everyone sitting or lying anywhere and everywhere. The simplicity of it makes me smile. It’s as if these beautiful people are always ready to sit "around a camp fire" and enjoy each other’s company, in total acceptance of all things as they are.

Our train arrives late but no one is complaining.

This is my first experience in Sleeper Class, travelling with the windows open because there is no air-con and the heat is strong.

I decide to just lie up on my bunk bed and absorb the journey in silence, peacefully accepting the noise outside and the din of people speaking inside at all hours, the lights going on and off at each one’s leisure. No one really seems to care much whether they are disturbing others and on the other hand no one shows signs of feeling disturbed either. So I just let myself slip in and out of sleep and accept absolutely everything, tapping into the freedom of being attuned with Isness within, irrespective of what is going on outside.

Love says: One can either choose to resist Life and clash against it or blend with it and let it flow through you, dancing with it.

I definitely choose to dance with it.

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Read Post 1 of this series here, post 2 here and post 3 here.