Wednesday, October 18, 2006

For the past couple of days.. nothing really great to write in the blog.. The usual life is moving on.. But i thought i will just share a couple of lines about the temple i visited last sunday. Its in Fremont! The place is not very big, but it big enough to accomodate like say 100 - 150 ppl. The temple is more like an iskon temple, idols of many Gods are thr. This gives u a feeling of entering a place, which is more like a north Indian touch. Even the poojari, who is a tamilian, sings om jay jagadeesh hare.. and anybody can take take arathi... not like the south Indian ones where poojari takes aarathi and he shows it to ppl.. so basically by now u will get the picture of what i am talking about. But south Indians have something to cheer about.. u have a pillaiyar (ganesha) vigraha and navagrahas. I have not seen navagrahas in north indian temples.. so, excuse me if i am making a wrong statememt! Anyways.. so after worship u get prasadam.. u knw what we get.. we get almond + pistas + badams.. etc.. we get fruitsalad (panchaamrutham) in india, here we get dry fruit salad .. :-) We also get free dinner! I dont knw if it is given on specific days or everyday. But food is pretty good! Given in a nice plastic tray with spoon, fork etc.. Its a different experience on the whole! I can only think of ISKCON temple.. No wonder ppl go there as a hang out.. Westernization dude!!

Things change from place to place.. so do people!!! YOU HAVE TO ADAPT FAST!! Adaptation and acceptance is the name of the game!! you have to realize this and move on in life.. afterall.. CHANGE IS THE ONLY THING WHICH IS PERMANENT!!

Have fun
See u later

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