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Geeta said something in pranayama last night that make me think of Granny, the elephant. She said that if it is tough there is no sensitivity. I considered Granny's trunk and how thick her skin was, how tough and impenetrable it was and I remembered how she closed her eye's as I caressed her and how touched I was by her sensitivity so in this case of tough verses sensitivity she was one to preserve the other. This might very well be the case for all of us, we hurt to hide and hide to help and the cycle continues forever unless revealed to us and we are able to break the shackles.

I have found that my practice here has not been the thing that was augmented by this visit. My practice has not changed so much, my teaching will, and I have and will. This trip has provoked within me that capacity to abandon. And to love India, coming from somewhere so different we must abandon as the same rules do not apply, can not apply because India is not somewhere else and it can not be forced because it's nature is not forceful. We must realise what we know and preserve as our reality is only that a perception nothing more and we may change it or keep it but we can not place it as fact for others when indeed it is not. So where as yoga was the catalyst for this trip and the central post around all that we did my yoga on the mat has not been altered as much as my yoga off the mat has been touched. And in fact this is more of what I needed anyway.

I have been in constant contact with Datta, my shou shou (prefered), for the past 4 weeks to find a Marahati dictionary. Yesterday he told me that "tomorrow I will take you for a special ride on my scooter" to find you a dictionary as he was pleased with none he had found as of yet. I bragged to everyone last night that I was going with Datta. So today arrived and Omaha joined us on the excursion as I had no none to keep her. Datta drove, Omaha was in the center and I was the caboose. Datta was signing away the whole drive and Omaha was chirping questions- Why is Datta signing,- Well what do you think he signing for?- He sounds happy- Then this is why he is signing, he is peaceful. In the end after visiting the Ganesh temple and 4 other book stores we found a book that will begin my studies. Datta dropped us at Roopali's for lunch where he recommended the coffee, dosa, and tallie all were good and Datta remains my shou shou.

So with Marathi on it's way I give you Salutations from India