As soon as the plane landed, I asked for clarity to make decisions and choose paths in alignment with a better version of myself. I was at a breaking point and willing to receive all guidance.
I traveled with a group of Yogis lead by my then Yoga teacher, Yesid. The whole journey was crafted to discover and meditate at the most sacred and powerful places.
The first day we went to the Lotus Temple in Delhi. It is a house open to all.
2,500 people irrespective of religion or any other qualification are welcomed to seat in silence and connect with what brings them peace, calmness, clarity.
I don’t think I’ve ever been to another man-made place where non-judgement, unity and equality find a dwelling to rest. Only out in nature, in the presence of its magnanimity, have I felt that humbleness and reverence in and to everything that surrounds me.
I remember questioning myself:
Why isn’t the world an expanded Lotus Temple?
Why don’t we treat The Earth as the sacred homeland to all?
Why don’t we reverence each other regardless of our religion, place of birth, color of our skin, sex, gender, regardless…of any created illusory hierarchy?
In a train bound to Rishikesh I met an Australian. I quoted him in my journal, I guess, taking his words as one of the signs I had asked for: “It is good getting lost, I like getting lost. You dissolve, you are no longer there. So, everything is possible”.
The thoughts and questioning I had at the Lotus Temple, not unique to that moment, are louder these days. Maybe, we are lost. Maybe we are dissolving to make what has seemed impossible, possible. Maybe, by evidently sharing a global experience, we are being invited as individuals, as earthlings, as connected beings, to question beliefs that have reproduced behaviors and interactions that break us. To evolve towards kindness and reverence to our homeland and to all the beings in it.
