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Kanyakumari, October 31, 2008

The sore throat and a general sense of malaise has been with me throughout the long drive from Madurai to Kanyakumari, the very cusp of India, where three seas around the continent meet and mingle: the Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea. Pilgrims come here from all over the country to admire the sunrise and sunset, very rare cases, can be seen from one vantage point. I need a break after the hasty and rugged visits Trichy and Tanjavur and I'm lucky because Vivekananda Kendra, the ashram dedicated to the Bengali mystic and philosopher, offers clean and comfortable rooms with bathroom. The Kendra is a sort of village-community nestled in a park. At the center is a school, a canteen, some little shops and a convenient internet point, from which I write. The connection to the small town is provided by a bus that is shuttling back and forth every 15-20 minutes. It seems the ideal place to relax for a couple of days and in fact after a short walk to the end (failed) to win the stunning return to my room and collapse. I have not written that the only security I found in India, at any place where I stayed, even the most unlikely, are the beds, mattresses leaning almost always low and hard on tables or on stone. A cure for my back ...

announced the following day the dawn is still hysterical screeching of the birds before the bell of the ashram. I get dressed and head for the beach, finding it already patrolled by schools and sellers of chai. I'm the only white tourists and how practices should be addressed with various offers and requests. The glow of the sky almost makes one think that the sun is already high and hence the surprise when you see the huge double disc planed horizon. The voices of the Indians on the beach wear you down for a second and also dogs stop tormenting her back on the sand, contemplating the rise of the world.

Come back to what I think this place is different from the Ashram of Ramana Maharshi in Tiruvannamalai, but also how the atmosphere and rhythm are comparable. Vivekananda and Ramana in a sense are the two paradigms of Indian spirituality: the ascetic who lives in the cave and the Monaco-errant. As the similarities here are very arbitrary, it could perhaps find a parallel between the Christian spirit of the Franciscans and the one - for example - the Capuchin missionaries.

Even the places dedicated to two saints at the bottom reflect the diversity of the two additional posts, both rooted in Vedanta . The Kendra, with its tree-lined streets that flow into the sea three, is a topographical metaphor aware of the message of Swami Vivekananda, all stretched out. And 'well-known Bengali Monaco's commitment in the social (schools dedicated to him across the country are an example), and his great ecumenical effort, exemplified by the famous Chicago speech, delivered at the World Parliament of Religions September 11, 1893. Both Kendra, with its iconographic museum, cultural center, large buildings and welcoming openness and invites exploration, both the ashram of Sri Bhagavan , built at the foot of the sacred mountain Arunachala Ramana where he meditated for other races twenty years, is a casket that reflects the deep inner reflection, contemplation. What conquest of India is precisely this movement of the spirit plural: one at the end of a long journey made up of meditation and yoga, but also compassionate contact with the men, pointed the finger at the social contradictions and invites the people of India back on its feet, the other calm and unmoved, pointing his finger towards the self , The self, the first man and the last place, center of gravity of the universe. Understand that there is no contradiction between the great orator that encourages action and almost silent hermit who is calling for "removal" of the phenomenal world, is the very essence of the Advaita-Vedanta philosophy.

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Tribute to Bombay



transgress the chronological order in which these comments appear to pay a brief tribute to Bombay, at this time affected by violent terrorist attacks.

At 21:15 on Wednesday 19 November, I took a taxi that took me to the airport of Mumbai to return to Italy. More or less the same time, last Wednesday, were barefoot terrorist attacks. I'm shocked. And for various reasons. First, because the first night I passed behind the Taj Mahal, the Indo-Saracen style of that building now going to see fire all over the papers. The Taj Mahal, symbol of the richness of Mumbai, home to the luxury all the Italian brands have a store there. I wanted to stay one more week in India, and this could be the week to spend in Bombay to hear more Balsekar Ramesh, one of the reasons for this trip. He could not live here in this extraordinary city, dreams, polluted, crazy, yet vital, as few in the world. All I had been advised not to stay there. "I'll be disappointed," he had said. "It 's full of aggressive beggars," he had written. But Bombay won me over from the first moment, when waiting in line for taxis at the airport I met a prominent Muslim friendly, with sparkling green eyes, a beard and a luxurious white coat. We made the trip together and I explained the contradictions of India, embodied in his multimillion-dollar family business that for over a century, Indian Railway provides the hardware, without being listed and receive loans from banks (it is forbidden by his sect - growth - lend or borrow money with interest). He retired, his son - of course - a graduate of the London School of Economics who has left everything and took the reins of the family. And now ago good old cruises around the world with his lady. In short, Mumbai. Model of coexistence between Muslims and Hindus. Throughout my stay, despite the traffic, the crowd, the pressure of the beggars and sellers, even for a minute I felt unsafe in this city. Much less anxiety in Naples and Palermo, so to speak. And this in spite of its ten million inhabitants, and the vast slums that come to lap the international runways. In the "Maximum City" dedicate a new folder of photos, put up in a hurry this morning on my Facebook page, with all the love for the place that perhaps more than I miss the whole of India.

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Trip to Kanyakumari, Madurai

October 30, 2008 is not exactly a city, but the typical tangle of Indian traffic, dust and men. Last night we got stuck with the car in an alley where every living thing seemed to have given conference, possibly in the wrong direction. Good Sekar almost lost patience with an old skinny that towed a dilapidated empty cart as her eyes, but somehow we managed to reach a hotel. The choice is pretty lousy though three stars, but I give in because he was tired and hungry and Lonely says that you can eat well on the terrace. Lonely unless telling the truth this time I get rid of you.

At dinner I met two students very roman à la page that gave me confidence and caught my first mosquito bite on my stomach. Bah. A nagging sore throat who knows how and where to take me from today to visit the famous Sri Meenakshi temple complex. However, this morning at breakfast from the hotel terrace, I saw emerge from the thick layer of pollution in the city of its storied gopuram ... A dazzling vision: I believe that these elaborate conical towers were the inspiration for a city that I do not know which episode of Star Wars. In fact, thanks to the yellow haze of the Indian sky, seem to emerge out of time.

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Precedence

Madurai, Oct. 29, 2008

Yesterday, after meeting with Dominic Goodall in the beautiful building of the École française d'Extrême'' -Orient in Pondicherry, we started walking towards Tanjavur. Even here the usual rigmarole of hotels before you find something decent. Before the decisive defaillance Lonely recommend that (the rooms are clean, "sic) the unpresentable Valli Hotel, which in addition to being located on a dark and muddy, is not only dirty, but it is infested with mosquitoes of each size and type. And the bathrooms are in Turkish. No way. After a very frank conversation with Sekar decide to follow his advice and take a room on the Gnanam, expensive but at least clean. In the evening I go out for a stroll and I must say that I Tanjavur tuttosommato is nice. So much so that I really pays off with a dinner in the excellent vegetarian restaurant of the hotel. The next morning I
all the time to visit the beautiful temple. After the visit we left for Trichy, where I met Suresh, contact the agency. I can not describe the whole of our conversation, but put a bookmark for a couple of important things we would have to say about this character. And on what I said. Together, in his 'little office' in a building of 700, we redid the floor of the tour and I decided to stay in Kerala two days more, so visit comfortable with the school of Plato Research Center. From Trichy to Madurai, it took about four hours, but the road going through beautiful landscapes and lush green, forested hills, palm groves, rice fields, in addition to the usual stone-age villages, but this part of Tamil Nadu seems much richer (perhaps fertile land?). My driver Sekar was incensed by the taciturn and Suresh, for charity, nothing to say, but keep in mind that here every 10km you risk deadly impact. Also according to our standards, because of course for the Indian is all normal. For example, it is normal for how to report work on the road, a bottomless pit, or simply require the slowdown in an inhabited place are two barriers a short distance from each other in the street. This ploy, intended by the authorities (?), Should force vehicles to slow down, but in reality committed drivers in fun gymkhana competitions. And when the road is two-way is even more instructive to note Indian compliance with the methodology above. It is usually quite simple: the launch vehicle at higher speed and larger scale (often the two things coincide in India) takes precedence.

The result of four hours of travel so that a voltage is fraying. I'm exhausted.

However today I think I made a couple of fire things: the first is that for me this is the journey of penance. Made me come up with a reading on the Hindu ascetics, who acquired great credit with the gods with their penance. The standard Indian force you every minute to fight yourself to accept the reality that surrounds you, and this is already 'practice'. There is no need to meditate and do yoga and get rid of the ego when every moment, here, for a Westerner, is an exercise in humility, tolerance, understanding. The second is more complicated and sordid in this hole of internet point it's too hot to write more ...

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Mamallapuram, October 28, 2008

the 27th morning in Tiruvannamalai has come to take the driver sent to me by Moksha tour. Sekar is called, is a fairly conservative and fifty silent. Cares about his old Ambassador (a model car of the sixties very common here) and I noticed that the morning he wakes up early to brighten them. The first stop was after Tiruvannamalai Mamallapuram (Mahabalipuram), a kind of subtropical Torvaianica who welcomed me during the bombing of the feast of Dewali, I begin to hate cordially. I do not understand why this city attracts many tourists. The beach is huge but the sea is not just a big mess and it dominates everything. However, the temples are beautiful and it is worth staying a day to visit. A Mamallapuram I had my first experience of "desperate search for hotels." It will be the only constant anxiety of the trip, because among other things, the Lonely Planet (possino cecalli) is totally busted on prices: any cost provided in the guide (ed. ital. 2008!), A hotel for the price of a ticket a museum should be increased by an average of 30%. Annoying.

fact is that on the third try I am getting a real rat hole to 600 rupees ("budget room", the guy says) infested with mosquitoes and filthy sheets which resist twenty minutes, then when the guy tells me that the use the pool is not included (but is a warm Executioner!) irritated me and I give passing a decent room at 850, "If you are happy, we are happy," the guy says and I just can not hate these Indians, even when they put you in the sack.

The visit to the temples of Mamallapuram (Five rathas and the large park where there is a bas-relief of Arjuna's Penance) is quite fast, because the town is really unattractive. To make me nervous it also puts the camera, two memory card out of three are rubbish and only Brahma knows why.

Towards the twenty I had dinner with a grilled fresh seafood at the famous Moonrakers, I was the only customer and after a while 'the two young waiters were sitting in front of me to chat. Now the usual barrage of questions in India: how your name, where are you, what do you do, you're married, have kids, etc.. Solita amused wonder when you declare your status as married, "uuhh. Why?". I just noticed that the Indians understand that you're Italian sdilinquiscono, since we are the only Europeans who can compete with their talkative attitude.
After lunch I took a tour - the usual effort to reject the overtures to join in the many craft shops (all the rage the Tibetan shop) - and I found a small cobbler who has remedied the theft in an hour churning out in the ashram a pair of beautiful sandals blacks "Gandhi style". I am proud I went back to the hotel with my new chappal ...

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Tiruvannamalai, October 26, 2008

This morning at 6:20 we started from the back gate of the ashram to go up to the mountaintop. It 'been a very tiring climb, although the day was ideal for walking: cloudy but no rain. But he was sweating, and I had to do a lot of force Heruli breaks. He sandals-I do not know how to saliva-better than I was wearing regular walking shoes. On the road, fortunately none of the beggars and dangerous attackers from which I had been warned - except an old man with your legs straight and dry, which did not require more than one rupee for a shiny black stone ("it Gives you good vibrations, Sir "). Sure.

climbed more and more I thought, listening to the deafening sounds of car horns and barrels that came up from the city (the infamous festival begins tomorrow Dewali, pales in comparison with which even the New Year fields) that Ramana would be hard today to meditate as did the early 900's. And I domadavo because I wanted to go up when everything is so changed. Then finally, after having seen some pheasant the fog began to rise with us, wrapping us. A gaunt and lonely dog \u200b\u200bwatched us from the tip of a rock (perhaps he had seen too many western movies and thought to be a coyote). From that point on I started to feel something, after five days of waiting. The sounds of humans began arriving muffled, as if we spent a boundary. It arrived on top, wrapped in a mystical mist and accompanied by two dogs, a male and a female, he is ticked off: Jadi, a young Sadhu with a turban and dressed in the usual improvised ocher cloth around his waist. I do not know if it was designed, but the twist he has succeeded perfectly. To his right a fence and two filthy huts of wood, paper, plastic. He made a sign to shut up and take off our shoes. We entered. Making the street, invited us into one of two huts, the largest one. To my left, three or four monkeys, about two feet away, watched us as guests whose desirability must be assessed carefully. My heart had a small bump: I would never have penetrated in such a place in any other context? Most importantly, I believe this dream scene straight out of a Kurosawa film? The Sadhu
invited us to sit up two sacks and, to my great terror, drew from a smoke-blackened container a liquid that has brought us into shells of coconuts. I had sipped a few drops. He was a ginger tea. Very good. Even the dogs came and were accocolati to our right. One's eyes were almost completely eaten by blindness. Yet they were of an infinite sweetness, as well as Jadi. For some minutes he continued to stand in silence, a silence that I ever repay you for this trip.

Jadi finally spoke and one of the first things which he said was that I could not take pictures. I have been pleased. Then he asked me if I meditated with the help of "books", and pointed with his hand on his chest, "that's where part of the meditation." We went out and took us over the top, a very big mall completely blackened by ghee (clarified butter) that acts as a fuel during the ignition of the flame ceremony of Shiva (Deepam festival). The legend says that here it would appear in the form of Shiva lingam of fire, and the rock is still visible the footprints of his sacred feet.

I do not know if he staged the play with all the tourists who climb the mountain, but I do not think it matters. It 's always a naked man who lives in a hut four-hour climb from civilization, and I respect that. And then everything here is real and it is not set. No need to chase a
thesis. The border between the spiritual and the material here is not only there, but it is not conceivable. It makes no sense.

And remember that pasta is made reality this evening after meditation, I have scrubbed his sandals. Do not mess with Shiva ...

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Day Five


Tiruvannamalai, October 25, 2008

Today I managed to call my mother and I took a ride on scooter around the mountain and then in the city (so to speak). The path around Arunachala is a must for Hindu pilgrims and the road is littered Small temples, shrines and baths, frequented by many sadhus and patrolled by monkeys. He accompanied me Heruli, a cute boy of twenty years together with other handles the internet point in front of the Ashram. Right now they are the only people with whom I managed to get human contact and dialogue. Westerners who prowl about the ashram is how they looked annoyed, as if the presence of other Western disturb their beautiful dream of spirituality. Right after he turned half of the world in a bank and the other half in a sewer, the West if it wants to be alone to meditate ...

Mount Arunachala is the place where, according to the Hindu Shiva appeared in the form of a lingam of fire, and here is the name of the temple. Tiruvannamalai is the fourth holy city of India, sacred to me but now I can not see anything. How to open up to spirituality in the face of all that decaying matter
perennial? Or when anyone tries to tap money? And 'This is the dilemma for me. For now. Then we'll see. I do not know. I am open to all, although still in shock.

Ah, today was the day of the sighting of the first animals 'exotic'. Some do not even describe them. But what a thrill when I saw a kind-chameleon iguana (?) Ashram in the garden! Was small and timid. And then I did a lot of pictures of the monkeys sacred, that little guys. Are aberrant, scaccolarsi trees are to the rest of the little family and the poor line up in the Ashram to get the bowl of rice and vegetables, and their lying in wait there for the rest!

I decided to stay an extra day to climb the mountain tomorrow. A four-hour trek, peaceful were it not that terrify you saying here that is full of stormtroopers, crazy drunks and beggars of all kinds. However I do not bring anything except the camera.

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A god without a drunk

Tiruvannamalai, October 24, 2008

to write a passage from the Ashram of Ramana Maharshi in Tiruvannamalai (Tamil Nadu), where I found an internet point with a Belgian woman near my room it is pity of my sperdutezza. I can not describe where I am. It 's like being catapulted into the heart of a world littered. A god in the mood to experiment, or perhaps drunk, took the world by the tail, pulled him up, shook him and brutally riversatone
content to the ground. The result is India.

Men, women, chickens, dogs, cows, monkeys, birds, water, mud, smoke, food and motor vehicles (all done, because maybe built in the image of chaos above) walk, crawl, zoppiccano , trudging, overlap and finally share the same space. With no apparent goal, convulsively forward to something. E ', I believe, this that most upsets the mind of a Western: the lack of a direction of a project. Here is the only project there. Or maybe not. For this is the first such fear and reaction, and 'absolute refusal. I've seen all kinds of things. Men who lead ox-drawn carts with huge horns painted in bright colors, open trucks crammed with women in saris, flooded streets from which women draw water. All of these people, the elegant man wrapped in rags, women in Sari (women are on average more dignified) mostly walk barefoot. Barefoot in the most total and absolute filth. Inside a temple or polished. It 'exactly the same.

And these dogs and these cows, lying in the middle of indifferent roads where the vehicles run, trumpet and avoids only for a few millimeters. Here is the realm of non-collision - but this is perhaps part of the above theory, are still settling? Or, they think that life is this: how can they imagine a different world, that is ordered? The same perfectly paved road, 50 meters after that turns into a hell of potholes, mud, bridges collapsed semi-como after a tsunami. I made nearly four-hour drive in these conditions. With a driver who tried to be prudent, I think. On the roads, everything. Beggars sleeping in the dung of cows and squeaky clean boys and girls in uniform. A lot, always barefoot, go to school. Dogs and men crippled or blind or prey to diseases and deformities that we Westerners can not even imagine.

The only difference between the vehicles and living things is that they have a horn. Comparably in this mess, the Indians are reserved and quiet person. The horn reflects an existential mystery in India. They are relentless, they never stop. The horns in the streets above and replace any type of rule. That is, the traffic is not based on paper, but the noise. A step guide Touring enlightens me and gives an ontological foundation for this phenomenon. The right hand holds the dance of Shiva "damaru" hourglass drum that scans the cosmic dance, "the sound vibration is the root cause of being." All it is clear now.

In every corner as India prepares you a lesson. The Ashram is a quiet and clean but the shower you have to do by filling a bucket of water. The rules are quite strict. Inside the fence (see photo at right) is required to walk barefoot, even on wet ground (I caught the tail of the monsoon), and the food is served on leaves of black locust, on the ground. You eat with your hands, accocolati, dahl and rice that is 'run' on the leaves from the men who draw from metal buckets. For dessert, a slice of apple. Today I woke up at 6 am, ate some cookies than those I had brought (thank goodness), I toured the library and then I returned to the room where I stayed until at 14.

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I was left without a clear idea, but my interest in meditation, Advaita Vedanta. But I've seen, done, heard, smelled and felt almost everything. Although the word "all" does not make sense in India. I drank tea in the hut of a Sadhu, on the ground and eaten with your hands food served on leaves of black locust in the Ashram of Ramana Maharshi, that trekking on the Nilgiri spotting bison, elephants and bears, walked barefoot in the rain in the temples of Kanchipuram, Tandoori fish eaten butter in Kovalam, slept on a tree house to Alleppy, enjoyed a massage, Ayurveda in Cochin, medicines taken by a 'doctor' Siddah Trivandrum, followed an intensive course of Yoga in Mysore. And so on. But the meetings most beautiful, most loving and I confess, were with people. Many are in India for spirituality, but this is a country deeply material. Any event, even the most irrational, provides a practical side. We Westerners perceive the contradictions in India, but in fact the secret is that there is no opposition between material and spiritual, both aspects coexist. Besides, in this land who was born non-dualistic thinking - which descend Zen and Tao, the ancient Chinese legacy Indian processed. On the advice of

Nacho - a friend English publisher that publishes books Vedanta - my first stop was at Tiruvannamalai. I find some kind of tropical Assisi, instead I found masses of men, honking mad 24/24h, stalls, cows, dogs, monkeys, dust, wondering monk at the temple and pilgrims lined with vendors of all types that will encircle each corner. The notes and photos of this blog may not testify even in very small part of all this, but help to keep memories alive.