The Mighty Ganga
Sunday, starting at 6 am, we took a very long 8 km walk to the Ganges River called the Ganga here. We were to walk in silence. It was so amazingly beautiful to watch the sun rise over the reveal the Ganga. The mountain breeze was soo invigorating! We saw lots of cows and monkeys. Of course my hips and back were aching but as I was walking I was singing in my head one of the oldest Vedic Mantras. The Gyatri Mantra: Om boor boovah swaha/ Tat Savitur varenyum/ Bargho devasya deemahi/ Deyoyo na prachodtaya...dont quote me on the spelling. It has been sung for Thousands of years and every time one sings it one invokes the positive power sent with it for those thousands of years. It is basically a call to the Divine, whomever or whatever that may mean for you, for gratitude for life and removal of pain and sorrow and thank full for all of nature, may we see the light. So the more I focus on singing this mantra and not how much my leg hurt or how much my back hurt or why did I wear my stupid keens instead of my tennies, the less I felt my pain.
As we finally made our way down to the river we were all captivated by the power of the rushing water. Rafters went screaming by bouncing off the rapids. There were giant boulders everywhere and we all went exploring the different pools and waterfalls in the shallow water. Vishva-ji made us all gather round in a circle amongst some of the boulders and told us the significance of the mighty Ganga. So Hindus believe in cremation and there was a spiritual king who had burned the body of his ancestor and this king wanted something special to do with the ashes to return the elements to the earth. SO for many many moons this king prayed to Shiva for an answer to this problem. So SHiva answered by breaking off one of his dreadlocks and the mighty Ganga has been pouring out ever since. The Ganga has special minerals in it found no where else int he world. Lots of healing mineral. Some Hindis will even put a full body in the Ganges and it will disintegrate more quickly than conventional methods. BUT where the real power comes from is at the source of the GAnges. The Ganges source is a glacier. At this glacier live monks dedicated to singing mantra and prayer to the river. Now there is a man who has recently studied the form of water. His website is posted at the bottom of this page, Dr. E. Moto. He found that when you sing or speak positively to water it is able to form beautiful complete crystals, but when he spoke or sang negatively to the water the crystals would not form leaving the water disconnected. Now the monks at the source of the river sing only positive songs and praise to the river. (all mantras are only positive, Never negative), so that means all of that positive energy is locked into the waters form and cascades down bringing with it all of that good vibration. That is why the Ganga is such a holy river. Now lets think about ourselves and our bodies; we are made up of 70% water. That means everything we say and think and do has an energy associated with it. If we think and speak positively it resonates with in our whole body spreading the good vibrations to all of our limbs, organs and cells. So conversely every negative thought deed or words resonates with in that same space in our body. Thus the power of positive thinking, speaking and acting! Which would you have resonating in your cells?
This was truly a spiritual experience. Of course we were fortunate enough to be north enough along the Ganges to be out of the pollution and trash and dead bodies, (which slightly taints the vibration of the water) so the water was still very cleansing. We all got to take a dip and it was truly invigorating. We got our breakfast delivered there too and it was one of the best breakfasts yet! Afterwards we all sat in a circles did some chanting adding our positive vibrations to the water. It was such content filled day. The kind where you have a big smile on your face and let out a big sigh! Then thankfully we did not have to walk back we got to take shifts in our little car minivan thing. Rule number 1 "Always room in Indian Car". It seats 10 comfortable, we squeezed in 13!
Other things are moving right along. my knees and back really dont hurt from sitting on the floor anymore. Its still a little stiff to get up. Im really starting to crave some comfort food. I just dont understand why we cant just have some mashed potatoes! We eat potatos what's so hard about stirring them up and throwing some Ghee into it? Ghee is purified butter by the way. Yah especially since yesterday was Canadian Thanksgiving and being that like 35 % of the students are Canadian I thought we might get a special treat but ALAS I am too hopefull.
Well its time to get back and learn some anatomy y'all so I wish you could all be here with me Rishikesh is so amazing!
Oh yes I need to tell you all about the Fire Puja next time! ALso a good positive energy story.
Smell y'all later...Oh wait that's me that smells! Ha I forgot my deodorant! It took about a week thought to get all of my toxins out and now I dont smell so bad.
Kisses and check out the website below!
Miss KAtie
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