I’m having some Ayurvedic treatment right now – taking four different medicines six times a day. Number one tastes like sweet pond water with a slight bouquet of rotting ginger. Number two tastes like eau-de-roadside ditch, with some steamed cabbage for good measure. Number three tastes like a volcanic mixture of sulphur, hing and month [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 20, 2008
Mmmm… Maha Makosh!
Blandly photographed, yet no less amazingly delicious.
My dad returned today from Simhacalam, the ISKCON farm in Germany whose presiding deities are Prahlad- Narasimha. He was there for Narasimha Caturdasi, which we celebrated on Sunday. As well as stories of the opulent ceremonies over the week he was there, (including numerous early morning abhisheks, using every [...]
May 11, 2008
Transcendental Treats
We have been pretty spoilt the past week, getting to hear both wonderful classes and kirtans from Radhanath Swami, Indradyumna Swami, Jayapataka Swami and Gaur Gopal prabhu. Just this morning, I was at the final class of a series about the ‘Demons of Vrindavana’, in which Gaur Gopal prabhu narrated the story of the killing [...]
May 7, 2008
Last Day Of University Symphony (Key of A major)
Ah! The smell! The SMELL!
Today the air
bursts with promise,
and wet grass
and music!
Tomorrow may be cloudy
but today it doesn’t matter
See the clusters of leaves!
the Robinson Crusoe jungle,
both oak and lime
Sprays of bluebells
explode down the roadsides
Tonight may be cloudy,
but it doesn’t matter
for there’s:
apple blossom
cherry blossom
plum blossom
all blossom!
Even the fields transformed
rolling lemon yellow
There’s a spring
and a pop
and a [...]
May 1, 2008
Summer is a cumin seed!
Happy May 1st! I woke up this morning to my Dad singing the ‘Oss song (click the link to hear a live recording from the festival and read the lyrics to the song). Pretty much every May 1st of my life has started in the same way. The only difference is that when I was [...]
