Pleasure Read. Ch. 37-54

Gilbert arrives in India at the Ashram at 3:30 AM, just in time to join the morning prayers.  They are singing what Gilbert calls “The Amazing Grace of Sanskrit”: “I adore the cause of the universe…I adore the one whose eyes are the sun, the moon and fire…you are everything to me, O god of gods… This is perfect, that is perfect, if you take the perfect from the perfect, the perfect remains.”

She started going to Ashram. She also said her Guru was not present while she was at the Ashram, but that wasn’t a problem, because “sometimes you will find that it is easier to communicate with your teacher from within these private meditations than to push your way through crowds of eager students and get a word in edgewise in person.”Gilbert described her beautiful New Year’s night, spent chanting with the others at the Ashram.  Here in India she met  Richard from Texas, a new arrival at the Ashram whose opening line to her was, “Man, they got mosquitoes ‘round this place big enough to rape a chicken.” Richard started to call her “Groceries”, because of her habit of eating much.

She spent much time meditating. She tried not to remember her past time. And one morning she realized how uninteresting and repetitive her thoughts really were.  The was a religious song she loved most of all – The Geet