Moments so Far ...

19th March 2012, would be remembered as the beautiful evening in the company of  +Michael Fischman  and   +Sahil Jagtiani . Sahil mesmerized us with devotional rocking music, a variant of bhajans in common parlance. Most of us simply danced and floated in the space of love created by his music. Michael presence was spellbound on all present. His meditation took us to depth and control that I did not believe existed before. I could remember following from Michael's talk, if I missed something do add in comments. Mikey, as he is fondly known as has been in Guru's grace since 1979. Yet, he is humble, approachable, a father figure, a counselor, an epitome of devotion. People just lined up to get his sign on his book " Stumbling into Infinity ", a truthful and direct account of his life that was edited more than 5 times before it was accepted and released to its first publisher. The book is an expression of his experiences with life and meditation  ...

Jhansi had glorious heydays in time of Bundelas and Chandelas. There are folklare about Alah and Udal that we heard during our childhood. Then there is the delicious mouth watering Bundelkhandi dishes especially the pakoda studded kadi , "nonian" and all variations of leafy vegetables sabzies. The language itself is so beautiful and musical. When you get to hear words spoken or song sung in any context you simply want to hang onto them and hope they last for a while. Anything budelkhandi brings tears to my eyes. Today I searched for bundelkhandi songs and found very little interesting stuff. This search in google gave me a nice Durga ji bhajan . A christian missionaries discourse is also available. If you can ignore the religion part and care only about the beauty of the language then go ahead and listen . Another song " Devo mogra kali main bhairon rang gayo re ". Not much beyond that. Do provide links and direct me to efforts which people are putting to bring Bu...