The Art of Living Ashram

sri sri ravishankar is a living guru who runs a world wide spiritual organization called the "art of living"

this is a clip from his ashram headquarters outside of bangalore. i promise, next time the video will not include singing and dancing. actually i better not make a promise like that in a place like india.

other than that everything is good. approaching the 1 month mark since my travels started. in the rest of the world hurricane ike is hitting landfall, obama and mccain are holding hands in public, and the nuclear reactor did not create an earth swallowing blackhole on the franco swiss border.

i like reading the local news here -- its a great way to wrap my head around the culture. youll have a picture of a rolls royce dealership grand opening right next to a picture of the people stranded after the bihar floods. we thought katrina was bad, try 2.2 million people in bihar stuck without food or aid for the past 3 weeks. yikes. the world bank did a new estimate instead of a dollar a day as the poverty level (which was 310 million people in india) they raised it to 1.25, which raises the number to 430 million. if you make it 1.35 its over 600 million people in india. its mindboggling

ok im in this gelato place in south mumbai and theres a massive kids birthday party raging next door. insted of a magician or clown, they just brought in a famous cricket player. but now the kids and their parents are spilling into this main room all eating pani puri. i dont think im supposed to be here cuz the moms keep lookin at me like whos this? so ill just leave it like this... peace and namaste