Wanderlust: In quest of the greenest grass
Feb 07, 2016 – BORDER CROSSINGS – Sharon Maas
There are people who stay at home, content, and never travel.
There are others who seem always on the move, criss-crossing across the globe in search of—what? The perfect country, the perfect home? Or is it just curiosity? Do they simply seek adventure, new experiences? Whatever the cause, they are globetrotters, always on the move, never a whole year in the same country, the passport never out of date, always ready grab.
Their money spent not on new cars or new furniture or new clothes or new stereo equipment, but on flights and accommodation and all the related expenses. And spent without the least regret. And even when they are dirt poor, they still manage to travel. Somehow.
I belong in the latter group. And I envy, how I envy, the first group. That sense of knowing, without a doubt, where you belong. That here, in this house, this town, this country, I will stay. Not to feel that urge to leave again, to find a better place, a better home. Roots. To be rooted in one spot, and never to leave again. As I grow older that need grows stronger and stronger.
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Thx Cyril.
Sharon Westmaas is not the only non-Indian who have reported this ‘magnetic’ connection to India. As I believe I told to you earlier, Phylicia Rashad (Bill Cosby sitcom) said in a 1990 interview with Hinduism today: “I always thought I was born in the wrong place. When I visited India for the first time in 1984, I felt perfectly at home. The surroundings seemed to whisper, ‘Do you remember?”‘ http://hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=741 . Paul William Roberts (born in England, lived(s) in Toronto) writes in ‘Empire of the Soul’ that he too lived in India during the 70’s and up to 1994 he ‘returned for various reasons some 20 times’. (Sharon also wrote in another blog that while she now makes Germany her home, she returns annually to India). Williams writes in the very first para of ‘Empire’ that ‘India is the only country that feels like home to me…whose airport tarmac I have ever kissed on landing’. Phylicia said about Indian classical music “In India spirit flows through everything. It’s amazing what the Indian classical music does to the nervous system.” Similarly, Sharon also wrote that she ‘can listen to ‘Vedic/Sanskrit chants all day’.
Then there is Tina Turner singing/reciting one of these chants: http://www.brightstarevents.net/news/tina-turner-sarvesham-svastir-bhavatu-peace-mantra. Clearly Tina must feel some attachment to India also. The equally famous Geo Harrison had a similar attachment (gave his son a Sanskrit name – Dani) and was ‘like a son’ to the late maestro, Ravi Shankar. Ravi, his daughter, Anoushka and Eric Clapton, et al., memorialized George with a two hour Royal Albert Hall concert with the first 40mins devoted to Indian classical music and chants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Dr1anRP9w. Geo and Ravi also produced a beautiful album of such chants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg8uoepX4OI&ebc=ANyPxKpus6G_Ofb2mZ_QJJdg_oAKydjZNkIgRb9o3ac9XGwk6bsnUZasGlfVB-lB1GzBxXDrz056vIYtLjKZ1GHbexnrqa1cxA
On the subject of reincarnation a UVirginia study is quite revealing/convincing. One ‘White’ American woman says that when she smelled the aroma from an India restaurants she immediately regressed to a past life as a girl in India being bethroted/married. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pPBwFFWz_k
So, Sharon is in good, credible company with her feeling of regression to perhaps an earlier Indian life.
Veda Nath Mohabir
Just noticed some bad grammar and spelling (for the purists). In the first line “have” s/b ‘has’. “bethroted” s/b ‘betrothed’ and “s” s/b dropped from “restaurants”. Hope I caught all.
Veda