Matrimandir - The soul of the city!

You have to check this out...weather you meditate or not!


Matrimandir, Auroville

If I had to choose one word to describe this place...Stunning!

If I had to choose two words to describe this place...Fucking Amazing!

This is really the heart of Auroville or as they say on the web, the soul of Auroville. We visited there today and were able to go in to the inner chamber of this sphere. What was so amazing, is the fact that the vision, created by the mother in the late 60's was only completed in 2008 with works in the garden continuing still as part of the 'Mothers' vision.

Using the words, Mother, Vision, Meditate would almost make this place sound like a temple...So NOT! Thats what I think was so amazing! I've been in India for a wee while now (3 months), so it was imperative to the success of my visit today that this place need not be another temple. No disrespect to religious houses, shrines and temples everywhere, but after a while you develop the attitude..."you've seen 20, you've seen them all".

The purpose of the Matrimandir is not worship or praise a higher source, it is to improves ones focus and concentration. How cool is that!...

When you enter, after a lengthy intro and procedure to familiarise everyone with what needs to happen upon entering, you enter this room like you would never believe. My first impression was how the hell could a vision from the 60's envision something of this calibre. Its so state of the art its, like I said, Fucking amazing. Words and analogies that come to mind, George Jetson, The future, Space age. Yet nothing like it! One would have to see for themselves what goes on inside, and unfortunately no cameras allowed.

The carpet and walls are white, so you are asked to put on white socks that they provide, the are ramps that wrap and incline around the inside, bring you to the top of sphere, where you enter a room filled with pillars. In the centre of the room is the most amazing sphere placed upon a gold stand that filters light from the very apex of the sphere right through the sphere in the meditation room all the way out of the sphere.....

omg....will have to re-write this description as Im struggling to find the words to describe it. My bad...

Christmas in Auroville...

So nice to have spent a Christmas without all the fuss. Too often we spend time and money buy presents, worrying about what to get someone, how much to spend on them, will they like it? If I get her a present, then I will have to get him a present. What a load of shit!

Whats nice about Christmas for me, is the time I spend hanging out with friends and family. This year I missed out on it, which did my head in a little bit, but knowing and appreciating where I am right now, is also very cool. My Christmas was spent with my two favourite Spanish girls and the hottest father and son duo ever. Not often would you say... ummmmm, hmmmmmm, ummmmmm aha. LOL!

As Auroville is an alcohol free community, one of the gals had to trek for a few K's on a shitty mope head out of Auroville only to find a Goan, red port wine. It tasted like shit, so everyone but me drunk it. I chose porros instead....

Bit of a boring blog, my writing head is not on.

Auroville India, The Human Adventure

I've ended up in a place called Auroville... It's in the very south of India on the East Coast in the State of Tamil Nadu.

I had never heard of this place before, but 2 Spanish girls I met in Yoga Teacher Training  were traveling in that direction. So, I decided to leave my favourite German in Goa and head east to Auroville.

Auroville is a pretty interesting little community that started in the late 60's with a vision to create unity for mankind. So going to there to experience what it was all about was nothing but interesting.

Wikipedia explains the history way better than I do, so here is a copy and paste.

The history of Auroville begins, 'officially' that is, from February 28th 1968. The Mother broadcasts a speech, actually an invitation to "all people of goodwill". That marks the launching of Auroville, which, everything said and done, is a 'project' and an 'experiment' in Human Unity. It may also be said that Auroville is a  laboratory for the growth of consciousness and thereby hastening the evolution upon earth in the light of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.

Mother approved following short text,  written in 1969,  which sheds much light on the purpose and background of Auroville.

"The task of giving a concrete form to Sri Aurobindo's vision was entrusted to the Mother. The creation of  a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. By the very nature of things, it is a collective ideal that calls for a collective effort so that it may be realised in the terms of an integral human perfection.

The Ashram founded and build by the Mother was the first step towards the accomplishment of this goal. The project of Auroville is the next step, more exterior, which seeks to widen the base of this attempt to establish harmony between soul and body, spirit and nature, heaven and earth, in the collective life of mankind."

http://wiki.auroville.org.in/wiki/History_of_Auroville

las espanoles son mas divertidas

Mas Divertads

Sitting on the balcony of a little hut in Palolem, Goa, with some beautiful, amazing spanish chicas that I met in the Ashram. We bumped into each other in Bikaner, had dinner, laughed and exchanged travel details and digits and said 'hopefully we can catch up in the south'... and sure enough 2 weeks later. Here we are hanging out for 2 days in Palolem. Still sitting on the balcony doing nada, porros, stretching, facebook, henna, porros, music, porros, laughing, and more porros, and more laughing uncontrollably.

10 days to Christmas

Can't believe its almost Christmas. It sure doesn't feel like it. How time flies even faster when you travel.

I am currently alone in north Goa. A place called Arambol. I split with my travel buddy by accident this morning as our communication devices failed us. She, out of battery and me, out of phone credit. So...She is in the sth and I am in the nth. Not so bad, as time alone was the purpose of the journey and its always nice to sit with your self.

For the last couple of days I have been missing home. Checking facebook is not so fun as I do love an Aussie Christmas! We really do have it good down there. I mean, I know Goa is warm but the few things missing are the special peeps in my life to celebrate it with. But you can't have it all...

elephant in goa...

So, I finally made it to Goa. Yay me! After eating my way through north India and having done nil to no exercise since leaving the Ashram, unless you count sight seeing... (hmmmmm what would I say to a client?...."That doesn't count as exercise")! Anyways, now I am in 400 degree heat and have to get my kit off. Fuck that I say.... so tomorrow morning, secret training starts. LOL 6am beach runs followed by a swim and then the "starvation" diet NEEDs to begin! yep, that's my professional opinion.

Though as I am a true professional, I will call this morning cardio fat burn, followed with fasting. Though, come to think of it and being more realistic (surrounded by juice bars and smoothies stores every where) I will probably be on a juice fast.

If you don't hear from me...I would have died of starvation...but location "Goa" is not such a bad way to say good bye to the world.

Namaskar!

Do I have shit on my face!...

I must do.... either that or 3 heads...

ahhh damn, my ignorance is showing as in the final leg of Rajasthan my patience has expired. So tomorrow...we head to Mumbai to commence what will hopefully be a different flavour of India. Excuse the ignorance and negativity today, but after a fascinating experience with consumption of curd and a day in bed I feel that it is within my human rights to have a "bitch" day!

Curd in India

Note to self: Don't continue to eat curd if its warm. Especially in Ranthambore India. It is not a good decision...