WHOA!!!!!! what a transformational time...
So ya, people were getting on my nerves with the money thang, well... I owe the next part of the story to a fantastic female Sadhu from South Africa named Sita Giri. We met in Varanasi at a guest house and we swapped stories over her birthday pizza:) We talked about Sadhu's and how I was looking into following that path. How I felt I wasn't so sure about the ones I was seeing around Varansi so Sita invited me to come and meet the ones she was hanging with in Rishikesh.
Time to head north to a little place just outside of the main city, called Luxman Jhula. So beautiful, colder, but so beautiful. Started hanging with the Baba's/Sadhus down by the ganga and eventually meet one fellow who was doing the most amazing stitch work, which Sita had been enthusiastically explaining to me. Mantra done while stitching with rich colors of yarn on fabric to produce these patterns that to me looked like vibrations, really cool way to meditate. This is about where I stop updating since this fellow and I start rooming at an ashram in town and spend most of our time getting daily food shopping etc done or stitching over tea with other sadhus. Who love to talk about God(s), yoga, mantra...etc. hang out in temples and caves... YAAAA!!!! My kinda fun.
I don't even know where to begin, there is no way to share all that happened in that month together. The fellow's name is Nirmal Muni, and has been a sadhu since he was 13 and is about 3o now. He spent years learning many different things, one of them being this amazing stitch work. And initiated me, becoming my Guru. Too me, parts of the rite were so amazingly intimate. Every day was an adventure that I will have to update as I can later.
