Self-inquiry is a moment-to-moment experience, regardless of what I am doing. It is not about what I am doing, but how I am doing it. Who am I? If I am not my body and not my mind, then a higher power is flowing. It makes my body move, and my brain think. It’s like being the screen and not the actor in life. What is ego? The ego is a dysfunctional relation with the present moment.
The new year starts smoothly. I don’t push myself to do things or not. The night was interrupted by a crazy barking dog around 03:00. It took a while to fall asleep again. I skipped my original idea of joining Satsang with Ammani. I will do it another day. I went into the Ashram in the morning for Meditation. I walked nine times around the shrine in Samadhi Hall. Then I left and enjoyed a coconut drink.
I spent the morning in my apartment, reading, writing, and coding. When I got hungry, I drove to the German Cafe. I had a Tibetan Thenthuk soup, which was a bit bland. I will not have it again.
Back home, I met Govindra, who is the owner of this building where I live. I asked him if he knew Chandra. Chandra is a lady for cleans the apartment. Gopika gave me the contact. I will leave the apartment clean before Gopika is back on Wednesday. Govindra will call her and make an appointment for Monday, 14:00.
After having a two-hour nap, I left again for the Ashram. I would meet Sarah there, she is still in The Inner Child Restaurant, drawing. She makes beautiful drawings.
As there is a full moon tomorrow, the road is already full of people walking the Pradakshina around Arunachala. Pradakshina (Sanskrit: pradakṣiṇa) is a central ritual in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. It refers to the ritual circumambulation of a sacred object, deity, or temple.
The word is composed of pra (forward) and dakshina (right) – which literally means: “Always keep the right side facing the center.”
I was meditating for a while, sitting in Samadhi Hall in the window. Next, I was walking outside to sit down there. Satya approached me, and we sat for a while. He is the Advaita teacher I mentioned before, just back from Pondicherry. Then I saw Sarah, and we left the Ashram to have some dinner. We walked towards Amrutham Restaurant. I left my scooter at the temple; the road was so busy with people.
We had a mushroom and a paneer biryani. I think this Restaurant has the best Indian food in town. Walking back to my scooter, I pushed it towards Post Office Road. There we could easily drive through the small backroads to Sarala’s Cafe, where we had a late chai.
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