Every 12 years in India is celebrated an event of global importance: the Kumbh Mela. It is the largest meeting in the world, more than 120 million people cared for in the city where we celebrate, the city in question is washed by the holy river Ganges. This year, the city in question is Haridwar. The exact date is established based on the position of certain stars in the sky (I can not remember well what I advise) This year will be from 14 January to 14 April.
We could not run this event important, so we decided to go to Rishikesh, 20 km from Haridwar, a holy city and also the world capital of yoga. Ashrams and yoga schools in this city are numerous, and the offering of tourist guest houses and restaurants, so we decided to bring us here thinking that Hardiwar search for accommodation would be more difficult and also because most of the people we met along the way there advised him ... We arrive in Rishikesh with Jordi
Gemma and after 14 hours of travel by bus from Shimla. We establish a guest house recommended by a driver of rickshow, we rely on him because due to the arrival time (22:00) could not think of trying something alone and without advance booking would be complicated.
From about a week I was reading a book that has given me Gemma, where the author makes a study on approfondido coincidences, due to personal life experiences accadutegli. The book, "The mystery of coincidences" written by Zancolla I was really impressed. The author deals with in a scientific-spiritual connections and the mechanics of a rational explanation does not rule out the mystical side of things.
This little prologue comes from the fact that the day after arriving in Rishikesh and bringing us to the banks of the Ganges, not yet know the city, looking for a place to have breakfast we enter the first hotel that we feel can give us a good breakfast.
After half an hour suddenly enters a person who knew and who had also spoken to Gemma. Our eyes are filled with emotion when Maika [the godmother of the girl taken to Anantapur for adoption, do you remember?] Also enters you in that restaurant ...
We embrace an incredible affection and while we eat our typical muesli-fruit-curd (yoghurt with muesli and fruit) tells us about his adventures after he had left us at Anantapur. The only option was a week before returning to Spain. We stay all day with her that makes us a little city guide, leads us in a small beach on the banks of the Ganges, where, given the intense heat, many people come to bathe in icy waters. One of the striking things in Rishikesh is just the sand in the Ganges, which besides being very clear it looks like a diamond sand grains, fine silver mean that the sand of the city is mystical. Of course I picked up a little and put in a bottle to keep it!
Rishikesh The impression which makes us unique is the first time, thousands of people walking the streets and going in the many temples and bathing in the river in one of Gath (stairways that end in the river), and using the sacred water to purify themselves of their sins and doing their prayers.
The atmosphere is really relaxing to Rishikesh, if I could I would be here for at least a month, like many young adventurers do, but my visa will expire in 2 weeks and I have to leave India and return must be at least 2 months out.
The days pass quickly in Rishikesh, April 6 Ledicia reach us, Anna and her husband, the girls in Madrid known to Sonrisas de Bombay and found to Om Beach. Jhoanna with them is also a volunteer known in the Vicente Ferrer Foundation who decided to join me in our journey and Jordi. Let's see how it will go ...
Given the large group decided to take a room in the ashram of Parmath Nikatem but in the end I just went, Gemma and madrilegni 3, Jordi Jhoanna and decided to stay in a guest house.
The ashram is a spiritual place of meditation where everyone can come and choose to stay but then it follows its own rules of the ashram, some very basic (do not use alcohol, tobacco, respecting the opening and closing, enjoy the silence during meals and after a certain hour of the night, etc ...). The ashram is often guided by a Swami (guru) who can teach life (a kind of priest saw in the Catholic view). Ashram you can follow various activities, among which we have done Hatha yoga (from 6 pm to 7 am), Kundalini Yoga (from 11.30 to 13) Kundalini and Meditation (from 20.30 to 21).
We were really excited about the course of Kundalini yoga and meditation. This technique is based on the chanting of mantras (in Sanskrit words to utter only produce a vibration within the body and help to circulate the energy through the 7 chakras), the music is always present during kundalini yoga and medition . Our teacher is a girl who was a student of Newyorkina most important teacher of kundalini yoga in the world. The first time I tried this technique was during a meditation class and I was really impressed that in just half an hour he could feel a strong energy vibrate my whole body ... the same feeling felt after 3 hours of Reiki.
After this experience I'm sure you want to continue with this amazing technique.
One of the old days we go to Haridwar to Rishikesh, we could not go and see the city where we celebrate the Kumbh Mela. We remain enchanted by the mass of people present, from the organization to accommodate the thousands of people from all over India. The rituals that take place on the banks of the Ganges are very strong emotion. Women, men, children, old people, of all ages, all walks of life to bathe in the holy waters of the Ganges offering their puja (prayer accompanied by the donation of a small plate covered with flower petals, candles and incense) to the River. I leave
Rishikesh with a heavy heart and a strong mystical atmosphere that reigns here, but my journey to follow. Now I wait 24 hours to train to Bodhgaya, where the city lights and Siddhartha became the Buddha.
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