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02/16/2003 Archived Entry: "bubblegum rap"

so its been a few days since i posted anything that was about india, actually.

i've been in coimbatore for the past few weeks, not really doing a whole lot.
guitar playing, some other stuff.

kollur was really really nice. i should've stayed there a bit longer but i felt like maybe i would be overstaying my welcome. or maybe not. maybe i just needed to change the pace a little bit.

in any event this temple i was at was really magical. i tried to go every day and worship. always there was some kind of activity going on, crazy old indian music, some traditional dancing, lighting lamps on fire, chanting sanskrit, stuff like that. it really was something else, something else. the object of all this worship was/is a diety of the Divine Mother, which is said to be worshiped by all the gods and goddesses. she is the mother of the universe, encompasing all 3 of the divine mother incarnations into one diety. confusing? well whatever it is it's good stuff. in retrospect it was like other holy places i've been to...some churches in europe, some buddhist places in the states. but being there for a month straight it had a more profound effect on me, or so i'd like to think. i'm not sure how much of that i've been able to carry with me away from it, but it's a place i'd love to go back to. and some of the people i met there were really far out. there was a swamiji, he was kind of an ascetic but not really, (yeah chris good description...) i drank tea with him every day and he would tell me his prespective from a life lived in constant meditation and worship. he was a really happy guy, really joyfull, always smiling. and his advice, it was good advice, but not so much different from other advice that i've heard.

i've been thinking about god alot, about what it means to be spiritual or not, what it means to have character, what it means to be a good person etc. i really don't know. but something i've been thinking is that i know people, or i have heard of people that say 'god this' or 'god that' and always use it as a prop for taking action. and i know people, or i have heard of people who say 'i don't know if god exists or not' and act more 'spiritual' in their day to day lives than these so-called 'godly' people. i think there's a group of people out there that live wondrous lives and no one knows about whether or not god has anything to do with it. and i think that's definitley one (of many) ideal to live up to.

people should live happily and morally and ethically, with or without god.
but for some people, it's hard to see the value of 'values' without a higher authority.

who knows.
i'm thinking out loud here.

anyway stuff is going on, all over the world.

love chris