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Glenda Ford understands what busy people are all about. She has been a small business owner, entrepreneur, managing director, is a mother, grandmother and last year finished her training as a Yoga Teacher. As part of her Yoga teacher training Glenda spent time in India over Xmas/New Year 2003/04. Here
is a small account of Glenda’s experiences……
After two hours we stoped at a road side cafe for a toilet break ... soon after a mechanic turns up from somewhere to fix our brakes (2.30 in the morning!) ... he really need not have bothered as soon after we got on the road again we hit a traffic jam (apparently 25km long) and were stuck on the road for another 4 hours not going more than 100 meters an hour ... we eventually arrived in the Ashram at 3.30 that afternoon! But the welcome we got was amazing! We got off the bus and the whole school 800 kids (aged 4 to 17) were lining the streets to meet us - the band was playing and as we got off the bus we were decorated with garlands of flowers and had the red dot anointed on the eyebrow centre. All the saints and monks were there to welcome us and anyone would have thought that we were movie stars or sports heroes! We were all just blown away ... little did we know that this was the sort of treatment that we would get for the whole week we were there. Treated like royalty, daily ceremonies in our honour. All of this was because the Guru who ran this ashram (which is also a school) had visited Australia for the first time last year and was treated like royalty when he was here - so he was just returning the favour. We had a few trips away from the ashram, an overnight stay at Pune to visit some holy places and attend some more ceremonies in our honour - one of which over 2000 people attended while we were paraded on stage with their Guru. The love and devotion that these people have toward Omgurudev (that's the Guru's name) is absolutely inspiring. He just wanted us to be happy, so everyone was happy if we were happy!!!! |
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