aishwarya picture for a magazine in which she shows his breast and she took millions dollar of thatThe Aishwarya referred to is of course the filmstar Aishwarya Rai. Good luck to you! (And why do I keep getting referrals for 'pron'?)
A friend is visiting from Delhi, which has changed her. She came home yesterday, bringing a gift: a copy of Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now: a Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. She felt sure that we must have heard of it, if not already read it, because in Delhi Everyone has read it. In fact, in Delhi Everyone is heavily into spirituality these days. She herself has become a devotee of Reiki (Japanese healing practise). She has husband-and-wife Reiki gurus in Delhi, and credits them with changing her life. One of them is clairvoyant, so she can ask questions about the future too.
She said, "If you meditate every day you can glimpse Nirvana." Ramesh said, "I'm having glimpses of Nirvana just from listening to you, but what good is it? I'm still perspiring." She dismissed this with a contemptuous wave of her hand, and said, "The trouble with you is that you don't want to be happy. If you want to be happy you can be. That's it."
Later the subject of suicide came up. She said, "It's come out now, from someone who knows: if you commit suicide you have to come back seven times, and under very bad circumstances. And that's a fact. So don't even think about it."
Since she had the Now, the future, and even the next lives under such firm control, we began to feel somewhat spiritually inferior. So we went out to dinner and talked about less freighted issues, like the Kashmir situation.
I bought three books yesterday: P.D. James' The Murder Room, Monica Ali's Brick Lane (shortlisted for a Booker Prize), and Popular Indian Art: Raja Ravi Varma and The Printed Gods of India, by Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger. (I had earlier linked to a review.)
The latter is full of wonderful popular lithographs of gods and politicians. According to the jacket blurb, "This book is the fascinating story of how modern printing techniques transformed the face of art and imagery in India, catapulting mythical and popular images within the reach of ordinary people..."
I happen to own one of the lithographs shown in the book:
Ganesh and his two wives, c. 1910
I found this picture a little creepy - Ganesh's very human fleshiness. But I liked the fond embrace, which looks more Western than Indian to me. Anyway, it's a wonderful book - just the kind of thing I like.
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