A VISIT TO VRINDAVAN IN LONDON

It was a joy to visit Bhakti Vedanta Manor, the place George Harrison bought for the Krishna movement. We met the cows, the bulls, were served delicious lunch, and Radha Mohan Das not only took us on a complete tour, but every so often burst into song. Here it was understood very clearly by me, that one can spend one’s whole life talking about Mangoes, but the essence is in tasting the juice of the mango…

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SUMMER SOLSTICE AT STONE HENGE

To be able to gather with thousands of people in the presence of the stones to celebrate the summer solstice was quite an experience. Especially in the morning when everyone cheered as the sun rose. At some points during the night, when the drumming, the people, the lack of sleep might have seemed to much, the presence of the stones became even more beautiful because they were like these still, majestic, mothers and fathers, watching with no comment, whilst their children played around them. And how much they must have been in the presence of over thousands of years! During the night the temperature was very cold, but the stones were neither cold nor hot, just a warmth. And a lady in the morning said as she lay her had and body on a stone, “you know, if you are touching the stones at sunrise, you receive a special energy which enables you to complete something very important, and as the day dawns, the one stone you touch is charged up by all the other stones, they interact, and you receive all that energy.”

Rather like trees in the forest that know and communicate with each other. The stones know and communicate with each other.

Thousands of years later people still gather at the stones.

*📷Emily Reed and Jon Reading

AGE IS OF NO IMPORTANCE WHEN IT COMES TO SANSKRIT

Age is of no importance when it comes to Sanskrit” meeting this 92 year old gem Dev ji somewhere deep in North London, what grace and presence and full of love and light. When he touched my hand and lifted them to his forehead, it was bliss, and also it was as though he was a child and I was a child and there was a simple meeting, no agenda, no age, to time, no space, no place, just the meeting. Can’t wait for you to see and meet him in the Sanskrit film. There is a grace, a radiant energy that has started to envelop and look after this film series. It is taking on a life of its own. All in Mother’s hands. (don’t forget to become a member of Gaiea’s youtube channel to enjoy the videos that go with this blog like this one of Gaiea meeting Dev ji