I am off to India today for the next five weeks! My mother-in-law’s ashes are with her daughters as we go to sacred places in India, from the Taj Mahal to Varanasi, Mangalore, Mysore, Punjab, and Rishikesh. I arranged for us to put her ashes into the Ganges on Monday at 4 pm, in Kashi, during the lunar eclipse. The same place where her husband died in October 1993. Om shanti om Ramachandra & Vishaha Rao.
The Year One and Year Two videos of the Shamba in Tanzania have been uploaded. It was rewarding to look back at where it started. Now I've got a good internet and desktop connection, so I will do some long-length videos on the history of Calcutta.
What a dream! I'll drop the video of Year One and Year Two of the orchard we have planted on the land, the shamba, soon. For 1.5 years everything struggled, and we had to use water trucks and buckets at times. 'There's no way,' I heard the voices; I heard the skeptics. I dreamt up a solution and now the water is flowing strong. I've more water pressure now than I have ever had on any property before. Then it rained more in a month than it has in a decade as a sign, a confirmation, of the dream manifesting. I still have some reconciliation of the past to do, yes I do, but then I will let it go. My mind is directed toward the dream. Alongside the orchard --which now has 86 fruit trees, 40 bananas (six varieties), and 64 shade trees-- there is so much on the horizon. I am dreaming it up as I go, feeling it aligned with my core, and seeing it happen. www.facebook.com/jeromearmstrongatgmail/videos/173…
We are traveling up the Ganges. We've a lot of videos to drop, but my voice got thrashed with being sick a few days, so I am waiting to do voiceovers for a few more days. The Ganges has been so amazing. I have seen dolphins all the way from Calcutta to the UP. I have also seen two dolphins floating dead. The absolutely revitalized after the lockdown, but perhaps now are succumbing to India reverting back to a polluted Ganges. This video I want to have a follow-up of, with us going outside next time! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYiOR...
This video is one I have been wanting to do for a long time, through Calcutta's alleyways to show you where Calcutta Yoga occurs.
4 Garpar Road, 4 Rammohan Road, and Jaya Gayanti gymnasium are open to visitors with pre-arranged tours and a suggested donation. Please get in touch with their locations for further information.
At Ghosh's Yoga College, Muktamala Mitra (Ghosh) teaches a course in certification for therapeutic yoga as taught within the lineage of Bishnu Ghosh. A unique method of synthesizing common exercise routines with hatha and pranayama techniques to address the health and well-being of persons at a one-on-one level.
The next training is in the Fall of '23, with three persons already signed up! To take part in the training, contact Ida Jo:
2023 is its centennial celebration of the commencement of Bishnu offering his teachings to others. He was only 19 years of age and ready to serve the world, starting from the open courtyard of 4 Garpar road and the field between the houses until a decade ago-- now a 35-story highrise apartment building. Time crowds everything together within these neighborhoods. I told many other stories within Calcutta Yoga, so this is like stepping back to '15-19 and the autoethnographic research period of writing that book.
I have been on the streets of Calcutta for the last few days. I have multiple projects underway. I need to find out how some are related to a book about the Ganges river. I cross it each day and hear whatever goes on in Dakshineshwar.
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, whose ashram I visited in Auroville, spoke right here where I am staying, in Uttaparra, after he was released from imprisonment for a year. He was charged with conspiracy. I had picked up a couple of books about his time in Calcutta at the Ashram in Pondicherry. Oh wow, I felt so connected all of a sudden...
There are many cool things around here, an old library to explore, ruins from a Raja on the river, fishing boats living on the river, and Kali temples. I figured I'd fall into some connection I hadn't expected soon enough, and this is very pleasant to find myself where Aurobindo stayed for a while. I'll do a video along College Street at some point... so many places :)
Aurobindo was 36-38 when he went to prison in 1908 and after that, in 1910, left Calcutta to go a quiet place by himself and others to live in peace. I certainly feel that part, living in Tanzania after that 20-22... (I'll be there by June or July this year--about as far ahead I get anymore). Tomorrow we are off to the Sunderbans. I asked Sasi 'how or where are we going to sleep there' but he seems to believe they have it figured out. He's got all these tribal connections, working in the organic honey market, so that's where we are headed for a few days.
I started a video on Ghosh's Yoga College. And will visit it one more time to fill in some outside details, as it was too dark to film outside when we arrived. I did get to film inside Bishnu Ghosh's old gymnasium, which is now a very nice temple. That part was fantastic. And I had a big project filmed, getting Arup out of bed and into a wheelchair but first I had to get his mother to open the door and let us in!! This sets me off so I will leave it at that.
A video covers buildings that have gotten torn down, one being the ancestral home of Buddha Bose, that of Raja Bose, the magician. Calcutta's first magician to reach the stage of London at the Hippodrome and many other places.
We had a taxi driver for two days, which helped to get a lot of this done. Today I began a process of applying to go on a tour within Fort WIlliams. To go on the tour, we went inside the Fort, and toured around, meeting people who would give us the approval to tour the Fort. I love India. Inside the offices, it had some sort of charge going on. This is an old Star Fort, one with a hidden history.
I am bummed about a lot of things here, all around, and from part of the above, so this trip out for a couple of days, thanks for watching/reading.
Fascinating place I am in Chennai right now, staying at this hotel, which was the Turkey consolute for a long time, and is next to a mosque. The whole area, Triplicane, has a lot of old Moorish-like red brick buildings. Its ironic, here, Tipu Sultan is raised up as the last who fought and beat, then lost, to the English. While in Zanzibar, he is a slave trader and is trashed. A video on the hotel coming shortly.
Hi everyone, we are on the road now. I already noticed a typo in our first video, haha, so it goes. We will improve as our journey through India continues. We will be in Calcutta on February 8th, and in South India, Auroville, Pondicherry, before leaving Chennai on the 7th for Calcutta. I think we'll be in Calcutta for about ten days, then it's all along the Ganges up to Varanasi and then Rishikesh, stopping at lots of places on the Ganges. Let us know if you are along the way!
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Am back in Africa. Will start posting shorts as I farm and travel :)
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I am off to India today for the next five weeks! My mother-in-law’s ashes are with her daughters as we go to sacred places in India, from the Taj Mahal to Varanasi, Mangalore, Mysore, Punjab, and Rishikesh. I arranged for us to put her ashes into the Ganges on Monday at 4 pm, in Kashi, during the lunar eclipse. The same place where her husband died in October 1993. Om shanti om Ramachandra & Vishaha Rao.
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The Year One and Year Two videos of the Shamba in Tanzania have been uploaded. It was rewarding to look back at where it started. Now I've got a good internet and desktop connection, so I will do some long-length videos on the history of Calcutta.
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What a dream! I'll drop the video of Year One and Year Two of the orchard we have planted on the land, the shamba, soon. For 1.5 years everything struggled, and we had to use water trucks and buckets at times. 'There's no way,' I heard the voices; I heard the skeptics.
I dreamt up a solution and now the water is flowing strong. I've more water pressure now than I have ever had on any property before. Then it rained more in a month than it has in a decade as a sign, a confirmation, of the dream manifesting.
I still have some reconciliation of the past to do, yes I do, but then I will let it go. My mind is directed toward the dream. Alongside the orchard --which now has 86 fruit trees, 40 bananas (six varieties), and 64 shade trees-- there is so much on the horizon. I am dreaming it up as I go, feeling it aligned with my core, and seeing it happen.
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We are traveling up the Ganges. We've a lot of videos to drop, but my voice got thrashed with being sick a few days, so I am waiting to do voiceovers for a few more days. The Ganges has been so amazing. I have seen dolphins all the way from Calcutta to the UP. I have also seen two dolphins floating dead. The absolutely revitalized after the lockdown, but perhaps now are succumbing to India reverting back to a polluted Ganges. This video I want to have a follow-up of, with us going outside next time! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYiOR...
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This video is one I have been wanting to do for a long time, through Calcutta's alleyways to show you where Calcutta Yoga occurs.
4 Garpar Road, 4 Rammohan Road, and Jaya Gayanti gymnasium are open to visitors with pre-arranged tours and a suggested donation. Please get in touch with their locations for further information.
At Ghosh's Yoga College, Muktamala Mitra (Ghosh) teaches a course in certification for therapeutic yoga as taught within the lineage of Bishnu Ghosh. A unique method of synthesizing common exercise routines with hatha and pranayama techniques to address the health and well-being of persons at a one-on-one level.
The next training is in the Fall of '23, with three persons already signed up! To take part in the training, contact Ida Jo:
Ghosh Yoga Training: www.ghoshyogatraining.com/
2023 is its centennial celebration of the commencement of Bishnu offering his teachings to others. He was only 19 years of age and ready to serve the world, starting from the open courtyard of 4 Garpar road and the field between the houses until a decade ago-- now a 35-story highrise apartment building. Time crowds everything together within these neighborhoods. I told many other stories within Calcutta Yoga, so this is like stepping back to '15-19 and the autoethnographic research period of writing that book.
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I have been on the streets of Calcutta for the last few days. I have multiple projects underway. I need to find out how some are related to a book about the Ganges river. I cross it each day and hear whatever goes on in Dakshineshwar.
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, whose ashram I visited in Auroville, spoke right here where I am staying, in Uttaparra, after he was released from imprisonment for a year. He was charged with conspiracy. I had picked up a couple of books about his time in Calcutta at the Ashram in Pondicherry. Oh wow, I felt so connected all of a sudden...
There are many cool things around here, an old library to explore, ruins from a Raja on the river, fishing boats living on the river, and Kali temples. I figured I'd fall into some connection I hadn't expected soon enough, and this is very pleasant to find myself where Aurobindo stayed for a while. I'll do a video along College Street at some point... so many places :)
Aurobindo was 36-38 when he went to prison in 1908 and after that, in 1910, left Calcutta to go a quiet place by himself and others to live in peace. I certainly feel that part, living in Tanzania after that 20-22... (I'll be there by June or July this year--about as far ahead I get anymore). Tomorrow we are off to the Sunderbans. I asked Sasi 'how or where are we going to sleep there' but he seems to believe they have it figured out. He's got all these tribal connections, working in the organic honey market, so that's where we are headed for a few days.
I started a video on Ghosh's Yoga College. And will visit it one more time to fill in some outside details, as it was too dark to film outside when we arrived. I did get to film inside Bishnu Ghosh's old gymnasium, which is now a very nice temple. That part was fantastic. And I had a big project filmed, getting Arup out of bed and into a wheelchair but first I had to get his mother to open the door and let us in!! This sets me off so I will leave it at that.
A video covers buildings that have gotten torn down, one being the ancestral home of Buddha Bose, that of Raja Bose, the magician. Calcutta's first magician to reach the stage of London at the Hippodrome and many other places.
We had a taxi driver for two days, which helped to get a lot of this done. Today I began a process of applying to go on a tour within Fort WIlliams. To go on the tour, we went inside the Fort, and toured around, meeting people who would give us the approval to tour the Fort. I love India. Inside the offices, it had some sort of charge going on. This is an old Star Fort, one with a hidden history.
I am bummed about a lot of things here, all around, and from part of the above, so this trip out for a couple of days, thanks for watching/reading.
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Fascinating place I am in Chennai right now, staying at this hotel, which was the Turkey consolute for a long time, and is next to a mosque. The whole area, Triplicane, has a lot of old Moorish-like red brick buildings. Its ironic, here, Tipu Sultan is raised up as the last who fought and beat, then lost, to the English. While in Zanzibar, he is a slave trader and is trashed. A video on the hotel coming shortly.
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Hi everyone, we are on the road now. I already noticed a typo in our first video, haha, so it goes. We will improve as our journey through India continues. We will be in Calcutta on February 8th, and in South India, Auroville, Pondicherry, before leaving Chennai on the 7th for Calcutta. I think we'll be in Calcutta for about ten days, then it's all along the Ganges up to Varanasi and then Rishikesh, stopping at lots of places on the Ganges. Let us know if you are along the way!
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