Wounded Healer

  At Isha Coimbatore  I shared my room with this incredible woman who seemed to be so jovial and alive    Underneath lay  years of pain ..she had had a past with a husband who had beaten her to a pulp .. fractured her jaw...who had lied to her about his first wife .. who still was cheating her while cutting her off completely from her inner circle - her family n friends .. . she would run away n sit in her car n sleep in her car at times bcz he would not beat her in open to maintain an outwardly sanity ..   All this while she was a successful professional earning even more than her husband in the USA    After he would beat her at night she would pick up her aching body and soul,  prepare food for him and then drive him to work as he did not even own a driving license in US!    Yet she would not be able to leave him ...she still does not know why she did not leave why she could not leave...she was paralyzed and cant...

  One of the women, a doctor from Jamnagar- I met at Bodhigram was so drenched in devotion, with such effluent knowledge and command of folk music and Dohe … she was so absorbed in devotional music throughout that her presence and energy enlivened the whole space.. We later found out her name is Shameem … she was of Muslim origin .. as a young curious woman she found herself gravitating towards her Guru .. of the Adi Shankaracharya clan .. last 22 years she had been immersed in her Guru’s presence … and her surrender to the divine reflected in the gentle wisdom of her words and her simple pleasing nature… bathed in the knowledge of “Advaita Vedanta “ and non-duality … not just as words but as a living reality within her It was obvious she had faced extreme resistance and even been ostracized from her clan .. but now circumstances had softened her family members so that they even accompanied her to her Guru’s ashram … Her story was so beautiful and heart warming and spoke of i...

  Aekansh at 8 1.Me  - Why don’t you like Arjun n only Karn Aekansh  - Arjun, wo Adharmi, wo Pakhandi ! Jisne Chhal kapat se Karn ko maara Wo mujhe zaraa bhi pasand nahi ! 2. Aekansh watched Spirit recently and BECAME a horse…  as usual... so now he snorts and ruffles his head every time to show his annoyance ... just like a horse It’s so adorable ..a sudden snort and ruffle when he’s exasperated 3.Aekansh asked out of the blue - Mumma Kiran Didi (our house helper) -bahaar soti hai to unhe thand lagti hogi ..unhe andar sone bol do Me - abhi kaise yaad aaya ekdum se tumhe Aekansh - Main "Dayalu" hun na Mumma - beaming ! 4.Walking in a temple, some intricately semi clad deities ...Aekansh points at them n says - Mumma dekho erotic art ...straightfaced and walks away ...while i sputter in mirth ,!. He had heard me speak about erotic art at Khajuraho with great admiration Later I asked him - what is meaning of "erotic" and he says matter of fact-'beautiful stone c...