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The Journey |
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The destinations to be visited are chosen for their most powerful and ancient spiritual emanation and traditions, places where we have gain from during our years in India over and over again.
Through living and witnessing India, during these weeks, we will be submerged in the contrast of a dramatically different Human reality and culture, an ancient place with alive and vibrant traditions and costumes. Some of the oldest people on earth, walking on consecutive civilizations, the wheel of History has taken many turns here.
The inherent primordial desire to escape Human miseries, and the thirst for Eternal Peace and Immortality, remain a highly honored and venerated priority in this ancient land, where many paths, religions, and teachers are found and followed. On this fascinating kaleidoscopic experience of India we will contact, learn and be touched by these, allowing, perhaps a chance to question, and awaken our own quest.
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"So what and where is this 'real India'? Anyway, isn't that phrase indefensibly limp and vague? We are after all considering a sub-continent - including every extremity of climate and terrain - where over 600 languages are spoken, where Tamils and people from the Punjab are more racially distinct than Portuguese and Swedes, where our European notion of the compact, coherent nation-state is meaningless. Yes, but... Everyone who has explored this sub-continent knows that there is a 'real India', intuitively apprehensible though verbally indefinable. Where then is it to be found? Everywhere. And at any time. Although bound up with religion - or, more precisely, with spirituality - it doesn't necessarily manifest itself most obviously at the solemn festivals or within the ambience of sacred places. It is robust, subtle, unsentimental, and flexible - an intangible exciting emanation. We can gain from contacting it, but only if we don't pretend to understand, if we are humble enough to receive gratefully through our psychic pores what our gray cells can't handle." - Dervla Murphy Images of India, Pyramids books, 2005 |
Where are we going?
We take trips of approximately two weeks to:
- North India, Capital Delhi and places in the State of Uttar Pradesh within the months of Oct-Nov and Feb-March, and
- South India (Tamil Nadu/Kerala) within Sept and Dec-Jan
 Routes shown on Journey Map. |
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