I posted in my blog about my Trip to India that I took last October 2014. I also documented it in a book of the same name that I had published on Mixbook. It was a life changing experience for me. Went to Mt Abu, India to the head quarters for the Brahma Kumaris where I meet many of the elders of the organization every one there made me feel welcomed and as if I had returned home.
There is so much I could say about my time there but there is one moment that I really want to talk about. It was the ring ceremony this was a time when all the first time Double Foreigners (name for those who come to other countries) would be given a ring the symbol of your commitment to God to allow your self to be loved because love is more powerful the ego. For me it was a personal moment to think of why I came here and what changes I want to make for myself deep inside. I would reflect on the love I had experienced. But I felt I took the experience more personal than most. As I waited to get my ring from the sister who was conducting the ceremony I thought about what this truly means and to feel God's presents in the moment. Up to the time I got the ring it was a struggle to focus on the true meaning of the event.
To describe it, it was a mix between a Trinidad wedding and a graduation every one was up getting pictures people stoping to pose with banner for the ceremony.
The sister placed the ring on my finger and gave a moment of drishti where you look into each others eyes giving pure feel and good wishes. It is a wonderful practice and expression of love, I would always tear up from a deep moment of drishti.
My mind was so much in the moment that I didn't know that some of the sisters from the center in Washington DC took my pictures during the ceremony. I didn't realized it until they shown me the photos after.
There is so much I could say about my time there but there is one moment that I really want to talk about. It was the ring ceremony this was a time when all the first time Double Foreigners (name for those who come to other countries) would be given a ring the symbol of your commitment to God to allow your self to be loved because love is more powerful the ego. For me it was a personal moment to think of why I came here and what changes I want to make for myself deep inside. I would reflect on the love I had experienced. But I felt I took the experience more personal than most. As I waited to get my ring from the sister who was conducting the ceremony I thought about what this truly means and to feel God's presents in the moment. Up to the time I got the ring it was a struggle to focus on the true meaning of the event.
To describe it, it was a mix between a Trinidad wedding and a graduation every one was up getting pictures people stoping to pose with banner for the ceremony.
The sister placed the ring on my finger and gave a moment of drishti where you look into each others eyes giving pure feel and good wishes. It is a wonderful practice and expression of love, I would always tear up from a deep moment of drishti.
My mind was so much in the moment that I didn't know that some of the sisters from the center in Washington DC took my pictures during the ceremony. I didn't realized it until they shown me the photos after.
