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Published: March 13th 2009
We navigated our way on the local buses to arrive at the Ashram which is just near a very small town called Pali. We crossed a fair bit of desert type country and saw many camels and a few deer. I'll have to work on getting some pictures of these.
Ashram means ‘welcome to come and do something’ meaning something for yourself and also something for others. The current focus of the Guru here (who is currently on a world peace tour as he also has many followers in Eastern Europe and a big set up in Vienna. He will visit Australia in April) is to meditate on and solve your own inner conflicts. As a means to working at effectively communicating with others, of course you must first understand yourself. So you can imagine there are more than a few 'washing machines' going on here as people try to sort themselves out!!
After some initial painting work, I'm working in the school and it is a wonderful experience. Free education is given to the girls as many of them in India do not have opportunities for education. It is very inspiring all the humanitarian work that is going
on here. The children are so respectful of their teachers and other adults. They are very grateful for this opportunity to learn. I teach Kindergarten and Year One classes during the day. One class has 20 children and the rest each have 40. In the evening I teach a small group, usually 10 students, in the hostel. There are about 100 or so boys that board here.
Big news is that the departure tax for leaving Delhi will almost triple on 1st of March. This new revenue of money will (hopefully) be spent on the new airport Delhi desperately needs. Let’s hope they can begin (and finish) the construction before the Commonwealth Games!
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ishwarpuri, BorutJi
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Hari Om, we just enjoying watching yours pictures. greetings to you end your family from Maribor,Slovenia