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Published: June 28th 2008
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I have spent 11 days recently in a meditation center which was not at all what I have expected. I ended up sitting in lotus position for 13 hours a day while obeying very strict rules and learned how to observe my breath... It was very informative and taught me a lot of things and made me interested in spirituality and how the mind works. After suffering from severe backache, I decided to visit the nearby Rishikesh, famed by its ashrams. I think it was the Beatles who put the small town on the map. They have spent some time here with a famous guru seeking enlightenment but finding Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. At the end they too, became disappointed with the Guru and I do wonder how come, that the same guru is now teaching in Switzerland how to levitateā¦.
Rishikesh is where all the foreign pilgrims make sure to stop and the holy Ganga flows, I am trying to not to step in the frequent holy cowshit while on the roadside people smoking hash...Here every sadhu ( holy men) are stoned or preparing a chillumā¦
But I am not looking forward to enjoy the bliss derived from
plants,
I am here for the food, the great, vegetarian, nonspicy, yogic food, and because I can pay a relatively cheap rent on a room in one of the ashrams. ( and get the same amount of cockroaches as if I would pay five times the price in any of the big cities...)
I am also here because people comes to meditate to Rishikesh, and when you meditate, you need silence.... so the Ashrams of Rishikesh can offer me what only ashrams can in India : Silence and solitude...
I thought it would be an ideal place to get in touch with spirituality and to tell you the truth I was in need of a break..
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