I am going to Brahmavarta to participate in the Nine Days of Mother Divine celebrations. I am not leading a tour. I am happy to travel with a few friends. You are welcome to come along with me. We can share the expense of hiring a mini-bus while in Delhi and Kanpur to tour some interesting temples and enjoy some of the exotic shopping.
My main purpose in this trip is Spiritual Tourism. I want to experience more yagyas sitting right next to the Pandits who are chanting them for me. I want to see and feel Temples that have been prayed in for hundreds and thousands of years.
My trip into the Llanganatis Wilderness with Gary Scott was that sort of Spiritual Tour. We each paid our own way following in Gary and Merri’s foot steps. It was a truly fantastic and enlightening adventure. That feeling of “All is Well” soaked into us from the cliffs and the floor of the sacred valley.
Gary and Merri Scott's trip into the Sacred Valley in Ecuador
That’ me with the camera. Look at our smiles!
At the Ashram in Bramavarta, that same “All is Well” atmosphere surrounds everything. I was helped through the ceremonies in Sept. ‘08 by the Pandits all around me. I had never participated in a Yagya. I had commissioned them from the US, but never been at one! Despite the learning curve and being in a land on the other side of the planet from “home”, I felt comfortable, protected, even nurtured.
I’m going back to find that feeling again (or an even better feeling!)
You can tag along if you like.
Shopping along the main road from Kanpur
Much of the trip’s planning will unfold while we’re there, like which temple to visit and where to eat while we’re away from the Ashram.
The post after next will contain what I imagine it will cost me to take this trip.
