Galloping on an Indian train, with horse power mightier than I had ever known in an open framed vehicle, the doors, on the latch, me and my accomplice sitting on the step of the quick-time, seemingly speedy view, we braced our little bodies against that rush of air, entering the chambers through the metre by metre-and-a-half boxed passageway between the wide outside and the busy commotion of passengers seated and lying inside in their booths. The Indian trains have 3 classes, 1st class, sleeper, and standard (an absolute rush for space and breath which I only tried on one occasion). As standard, I rode sleeper class, the exaltation of the network of buyers and sellers, the passengers and the chai, water, fizzy drinks, onion bhaji, samosa and other general snack sellers, was, to anyone’s senses, an amazing journey into getting to know India. “Full power”, is a phrase we heard a lot while bantering on the streets with shop sellers and randomers that seemed to loiter around groups of tourists. It’s sure to say, that India is one place where it’s easy to make friends, so is Brighton, where I live, in the UK; there are pockets of openness around the World, where people seem to chat more to strangers they meet, but India is one of those very open places, where the blend between friend and foe is very well woven. Hindu culture is one of the most amazing forests of love and trust. We embark on it with a little excited adventure when we go to India because people there are so willing to share stories and special events with foreigners.
Mind, Body, Spirit and Soul and the numbers in our conscience.
We were on our way from an ashram, Hindi for home, Spiritual home, where people gather and/or stay to worship and/or do yoga, which of course is a form of worship. We had been at the Ashram/Yoga School, in Maharashtra where we did a teacher training course in Yoga. The word yoga means union, between mind, body, and soul. However, I see, coming into the new age, a new union, beyond the holy 3 that we have been based in, as some people call the union mind, body and spirit, and some people: mind, body, and soul. Therefore on co-creation of the global Earth, we must take in to account everybody’s philosophies and senses… it is fitting as 3 is a number of development, it pivots, I heard in a lecture on alchemy, 4 is a stable number, it stands, we can deduce this for all odd and even numbers. Therefore, in a fast paced modern world, we could look to find the 4 in our meditations, but not in our prayers, for odd numbers go somewhere, as in the rotation of the weeks, resting on 7 days each week, the cycle does not stop. Even numbers sit, we see it in the 30 days of September, April, June and November. One month in each of the 4 seasons where we can experience climatic stability, April and June being the 4th and 6th months, real stability where energy is high in the ecosystem. September and November being the 9th and 11th months, stability of 30 days, in an ordinal sequence of months where they land on odd numbers, a little extra rotational frequency to get us through the winter. I love seeing and understanding the natural order of the world we live in.
You can even associate the oddness with a growing trend to step outside of conformity, growing in vigour as we embark on new ways to dress, eat, work and play, often coming from other nations, as we grow ever more intertwined, I have visions sometimes of the rotations occurring between us, on an international scale, all occurring because someone decided to be a bit odd and step out of the national framework. Being odd, has, in many senses, become cool, it gives us energy, to throw stability off, and then reincorporate, for new stability. We see it in fashion.
With mind, body, spirit, and soul, we see stability. There has been great celebration in Europe of mind, body and spirit, and mind, body and soul… Could we be pumping it up for a new revolution of unity? Through learntospeakanew, I would like to expand more on this. Language is at the heart of our knowing, with words, we identify, therefore learning a way to communicate our increased capacity of individual union and collective union, we can share in new heights of this wonderful sense of being.
