Day 13 Mt Abu - Udaipur 14th Nov 07

Checked out from Jaipur House and we had a few hours to explore the town in daylight before we head again. Most of us felt like celebrities as the Indians all want to take our photos and to shake our hands and say hello. I still think they must have mistaken me as Lucy Liu (god knows how...but..)

Leanne and I discovered beautiful wooden stamps and had our palms design stamped with henna.

We wondered off to a Brahma Kumaris Meditation Museum. Beautiful pictures and sculptures depicting all different religions as originated from one source.

I bought a few literature booklets from the bookshop and one was called "Thought for Today" One page stands out for me and here is an except:

It may seem almost useless to talk about peace when all around us we see a continued state of "peacelessness". It is this state that forces on us the necessity of finding our source of peace to draw upon and live from.

Consider the flowers. They too live in this peaceless environment. They too have to endure the pollution and decay of the world of nature. Yet, wherever they are found - by the congested roadside, near the swamps, in the desert, amid the thorns and sometimes even on the dung hill - they are eternally beautiful, gay and fragant. It is not by chance that flowers are given for every occassion, even the most sorrowful. Flowers call forth images of peace and tranquility. It is their nature.

We are also like flowers. We are the flowers of the garden of God. In this worldwide garden of everyday hustle and bustle, we too are threatened with pollution and degraded circumstances. Being flowers, we are expected to live in our natural state of peace and spread our fragrance all around us.

When we realise that the original nature of our soul is that of peace, we can combine with God who is the Ocean of Peace and so become embodiment of peace....a living, thinking flower. .....

Wow !!!That was so beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!! felt so humbled after reading that booklet.

Then we visit the Delwara Jain Temple which is dated back to 11 century. This is such a beautiful temple and unfortunately we couldn't take any photos as a form of respect but I got some postcards and this is how the interior looked like:

Words just couldn't described what I was seeing right before me. Left me quite breathless indeed. Magnificent!!!!