Happy New year

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday, I moved from Puttaparthi back to Tiruvannamalai it took about 9 hours of travelling tima.

I stayed 8 days in Sai Baba's ashram which is like a small clean village and had morning and evening Darshan with Sai Baba. It was a wonderfull time.


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Happy travels,
Ohm shanti, shanti, shantihi
Meinoud
http://www.rijnentravel.blogspot.com
From Amsterdam to India by bus and train

Merry Christmas

I wish you all a Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The last couple of days I celebrated Christmas in Puttaparti with Sai Baba and thousands of other people from all over the world.  The Christmas celebration was in Sai Baba's Ashram were with  Christmas carols,  music , Christmas dinner, and lot of Christmas feeling. A real celebration. 

Sai Baba's Ashram is an important ashram here in India,  the president of India and the premier minister of India are devotees of Sai Baba. They came for his birthday a couple of weeks ago.

Anyway I all wish you a Merry Christmas, all are one!!!!!!

>From Puttaparti, Sai baba Ashram

Meinoud

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Happy travels,
Ohm shanti, shanti, shantihi
Meinoud
http://www.rijnentravel.blogspot.com
From Amsterdam to India by bus and train

This morning Jos, Annabele and I attended a Indian, Tamil wedding. The son of the family who got married is living in our guesthouse. One month ago he did not know that he would marry soon, because this is one of the many arranged marriage in India. Arranged marriage are very common here in India more then 80% of the Indians "choose" for arranged marriages. Most of the time the family makes the arrangement and then "the couple" will meet for a couple of hours so they can check each out. Of course the "couple" will not meet private but under eye of both there families.

So this morning we went to the wedding at 8 am and the wedding lasted till 9:30 am incl breakfast with idly, pongal, Vadai, puri and some kind of sweet. The wedding is ceremony with a Hindu priest, lots of traditional music all very loud, and many guest. Tonight they will be together for the first time and they will stay in there new room/house from 2 meter by 3 meter.

For us it was a big event I'm sure for the newly wed couple it must be the same or even more.

Greetings from a cold winter Tamil Nadu (28 degree brrrrrrrrrrrrr),
Meinoud

added a new link direct to my pictures from Tamil Nadu

Hi guys,

I just added a new link directly to my pictures from Tamil Nadu. Just look at the side bar and click on pictures from Tamil Nadu, India

The good news is i'm still in Tiruvannamalai. Hopefully I will soon put a new storie about ramana ashram and a storie about Deepam (the manesfestation of Shiva) on my side. For now I uploaded some new pictures.

The new pictures were taken from the teashop (Tiffini) opposite Ramana Ashram. A few pictures were taken during Deepam festival. During this festival the carry the gods around the temple.

Meinoud