Of Latitudes and Attidudes

Came back from an awesome trip to Japan and India. Left on Dec. 12th for the Land of the Rising Sun, arrived on the 13th night, travelled around Tokyo for a day, left for Osaka on the morning of the 14th to see Zakir, came back to Tokyo on the 18th to leave for India on the 19th. India was a blast BUT I'm not going to write everything here...I have an account on my webpage. Maybe I'll upload it here someday. In the mean while, here's something to chew on. Yesterday I was at a talk by Swami Jyotirmayananda who presented a homage to Swami Vivekananda on his 100th anniversary of departure from this material world. The presentation was actually a video-tape of a powerpoint slide show with voice-over. After the main presentation was over in about 30 mins, we got a bit edgy as there was not much to the homage other than platitutes to Swami Vivekananda. So we started a Q&A session and got him to talk a bit about Vedanta, Yoga, and path to Samadhi (He did not use the word Mo...