with Sri Ganesh

- 23-03-09:

… Sri Ganesh, you appear as these highly festive, nearly immobile dancers, who glide in on the stage wondrously appareled – in Kathakali or in the Japanese Nobuki – and are able to vibrate and pulsate intense expressions with a flick of a wrist, a trembling of an eyebrow, a twitch of the lips,

Pulsating presence Of your unseizeable density, Emanating waves Of richest, finest beauty And fully honoring The fiery nectar of Flaming love In the life of Matter, And each of your steps ushers A boundless intricacy Of inner culture, Where meaning is an act And action is charged With unfettered knowing.

… In the evening, after our work in the garden, KK Ramalingam arrives in time for the weekly session, a little before 6 pm, and we prepare everything for the rest of the “chanting group”. I have an opportunity to tell him quietly and clearly what I think of Shankar’s behavior last week on behalf of their group and he appears to genuinely agree; I leave when others begin to arrive as well, letting Manikandan look after them.

- 24-03-09:

… This morning, a well-dressed young man came in holding his ailing mother, to do their pranams and have Darshan of Sri Ganesh... I have no idea how, sometimes, people just arrive; they must have been told about this place, but what have they heard and from whom, I do not know…

(Note: I have followed the practice of entering in the diary a mention of every visitor, which I do not reproduce in this document, except

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