Well this is it...the big event.
We leave in a few hours for Kolkata. I've been thinking long about whether to make great efforts to find internet connections to keep the updates going while I'm there.
I've come to the following conclusion: I'm going to wait.
This part of the trip has such intense personal meaning for me I want to be sure that I take the time to fully absorb it rather than be too concerned about immediately redistributing the experience.
This blog is a joy for me, and I will be sure to share, but I would like to take some time to really reflect on what all of this really means to me.
Please check back next weekend. I'll have my observations, comments, and photos posted by the end of the 5th.
In the meanwhile...I finished the Bhagavad Gita and while there were many passages that spoke to me there are these two which I particularly would like to share:
Free from selfish attachment, they do not get compulsively entangled even in home and family. They are even-minded through good fortune and bad. Their devotion to me is undivided. Enjoying solitude and not following the crowd, they seek only me. This is true knowledge, to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance. (13:9-11)
and
They live in freedom who have gone beyond the dualities of life. Competing with no one, they are alike in success and failure and content with whatever comes to them. They are free, without selfish attachments; their minds are fixed in knowledge. They perform all work in the spirit of service, and their karma is dissovled. (4:22-23)
Until we meet again...
Peace,
A Pink American
