The Holy Flies

Since I last wrote not much has happened outside of attending lectures, swimming in the Ganges and swatting flies.

I swear I must spend half my time (when I'm anywhere other than in my room) swatting away flies. They are EVERYWHERE and in droves.

The way I figure, if you take the cows out of the equation, there would be much less cow shit on the streets, thus reducing the fly population considerably.

This afternoon, while we were eating at a new Italian place I discovered I was staring out of the window at all the cows and in the sunlight I could see all of the swarms of flies surrounding them. Mind you, this is in the middle of a restaurant bizarre!

I'm thinking, "this would never fly in LA (no pun intended). The FDA would have all of these restaurants shut down.

As we were eating, one girl at our table found half of a fly cooked into her naan bread. Yes that's right, only half. She wanted to notify the staff and I asked "What exactly do you want them to do?"

But hell, we've all probably eaten at least half a dozen flies since we've been here. And since they cook everything to death you wouldn't even know you were eating flies.

Oh, and if you were wondering why they serve naan at the Italian restaurant, the answer is they serve everything at all the "western" restaurants from Chinese to Israeli to indian to Italian. And surprisingly it all tastes pretty authentic.

Actually, considering where we are, the restaurants are pretty good and efficient. And without the blessed cows, India wouldn't be the India that we know and love today.

I know I tend to focus on the stranger sides of this society. But there is much beauty here as well. Much much beauty. I can't wait to publish some of the pictures when I return to LA next week.
Speaking of which, today I started making plans to get back to Delhi on Monday. I can hardly believe that 10 days have already passed. Iris and I decided to forgo the 3rd class train ticket adventure and hire a car to drive us down. We'll see how that works out.

Ok, I would like to go and sit for my evening meditation now. But before I sign off I wanted to leave you with an uplifting thought:

Anything is possible. We never want to think we are not good enough for whatever desire we have. That means, no more small thoughts! We ARE good enough and we are supported by our divine deserving power. So go out there right now and make it happen. We want to take giant leaps without looking back. Look forward so if we stumble we fall forward. We're not interested in falling back anymore.

Light-house