After the ride in the big old Ambassador into town, we checked into a room at the beautiful Jagat Niwas hotel in Udaipur. Udaipur is an incredibly picturesque town, with winding streets and steep narrow lanes. Known as the City of Lakes, the town is built around Lake Pichola, a lake made by Maharana Udai [...]
At about 10am on Tuesday 27th, we got a cab to take us to Sushila’s place. Sushila is a Nepalese woman Dey met on the internet several years ago. She’s married to an Indian man and has lived in Bombay I think for over 30 years in a great 3-4 bedroom apartment. Sushila has a passion [...]
We woke at 4.30am to get ready before the cars came to pick us up from Yogini’s and take us back to the bus. Once at Kothawalla, I headed back up to the tailors and collected my finished and perfectly fitting new clothes! Back at Kothawalla, we went up to the car to say goodbye [...]
Saturday was our last full day in Ganeshpuri and poojas had been arranged with Prasad, the Brahmin priest from the Nityananda temple. We started the day early, catching the end of Abishek at 5.30am so Shri Pad could bless two rudrakshas I had bought the day before for Swamiji and Devi. After Arati, we headed [...]
Friday, we headed to Kothawalla for Guru Gita with Swamiji and the group at 7am, before the normal meditation at 7.30am. We did 60 verses, in line with the normal practice of the Shiva ashram. For the last few mornings, we had been having a “Siva Symporium” after brekkie each day. A number of people [...]