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I went to the Remember Shakti concert (John McLaughlin - Guitar, Zakir Hussain - Tabla, U. Shrinivas - Mandolin & V. Selvaganesh - Kanjira) a couple nights ago. Totally amazing you should all go see them if they are in your neck of the woods :)
The previous week I saw Prem Joshua, who also rocked! The laser show was a bit much since the thing kept shooting in my eyes, but the music was great!
Getting the tickets for the Remember Shakti concert was a lesson in what India is like. My roomate (more on that later) and I went to the local spice market where they were supposed to be selling tickets, but they were closed (at least the ticket office was)... "Come back in 45 minutes" we were told... So rather than taking both of our time, I decided to get tickets for the both of us. An hour or so later I walked back there and they said, oh sorry we sold out yesterday... Damn... So as I'm walking out I hear some people in a rickshaw talking about tickets and I pop my head in and tell them the tickets are sold out... No problem they say, we just have to go to The University Of Pune where the concert is being held and we can buy tickets, do I want to share the ride? How cool is that, so 30 minutes in a rickshaw through what I think would pass as pretty main roads here, and we get to the Uni, buy tickets and ride back for another 30 minutes.
Now about the room-mate situation. Pretty soon (following day maybe) after my previous post I got fed up with dealing with the rental agents here and went out on my own. I found a posting in the welcome center at the "resort" that was recent and suggested that interested parties should stop by before 11am.. It was 2pm already. I figured I stop by just in case. Amazingly Kish (the owner) was there for 2 minutes and we happened to be there at the same time. He has a really nice two bedroom apt. nearish to the resort (at the Woods for those of you in the know :). I took it on the spot, and have been really happy with the whole setup.
A few days ago, Kish (Avalon) and his GF Neera (Michele) left for Goa and they rented their second room to a woman from Italy. She's here for a 21 day training, so is not really going to be arround much.
So I have this really nice apt. with a modern kitchen, washer, dryer, TV, etc... mostly to myself!!! Yay!!!
Kundalini continues to be good, more silence and less fantasizing about romance :) I have also tried the AUM Meditation a couple of times. It's quite intense, but so far I haven't found it "meditative"... 12 stages over 2 1/2 hours... The initial ones take lots of energy!!!
The first time I did AUM, my glasses broke, so I had to go buy new ones (I'm sooo glad I brought a spare pare with me :) $100 for glasses that would have cost at least $300 in the states... Definately some benefits to this country!!! I'm having the old ones mended, but doubt they will last long since the bridge snapped.
Now for something completely different. Have you ever heard of an Ego Search? If not I bet most of you have done one, and if not you will :) The idea is that you go to one of the big search engines Google or Altavista for example and put in your own name. Search the net for yourself... it's called an Ego Search... I think I have discovered a new height to this ego searching phenomena ;) One of my roomates from college (Crosby) came across an article about those infamouse "orange people" written by an old friend of mine... Anyway Crosby mentioned it because the article makes some brief reference to me... If that isn't enough reason for you to read the article ;) it is a really interesting and worth reading. What's more, Tim (Yogesh) is writing a book about the whole life of a commune kid so there should be more eventually.
Oh and did I mention that Crosby is getting married!!!! My good friends Eric and Heather are also getting married!!!! Congratulations you guys!!! I'm so happy for you!!!!!!!
Wishing lots of love and peace to everyone out there!
-- Bindu