sahaja yoga

So our train wasn't actually 5 hours late. It ended up being 8.5 hours late. "That's India"

On our first day in India we met a English guy - but Indian by birth - named Raj who really liked to use the phrase "that's India" for things. For example, In Calcutta the metro line doesn't start running until 2pm. I asked him why? And his answer was "That's India". So the 8 hour late train didn't really phase anyone.

But while waiting we (mostly Kim) were approached by a religious group who had just attended a conference and offered to give Kim some Mandi/Henna tattoo. While Kim was getting a tattoo their leader explained to me their beliefs. The details are on their website at www.sahajayoga.com. The gist is that there are 7 energy centres in our body and that cosmic rays come down through these energy centres and break off in a prismatic way to charge the other centres. To reach enlightenment you need to remove the barriers to and within these energy centres. The sacrum is the most sacred of the centres and represents innocence and is/was the most pure at birth.

The cosmic rays are not necessarily cosmic rays, but because the highest known energy is cosmic, they call them cosmic rays.

It was an interesting discussion. They were going to teach us sahaja meditation if they could find a dark and quiet room but the could not. Which is ok by us anyway - I'm not the type to go or let Kim go into a dark and quiet room with strangers.