Sunday, December 16, 2012

Adyar, Sunday 16 December 2012

Adyar River with ship stranded by cyclone on 31st October 2012




Adyar, Sunday 16 December 2012

This week’s session of the School of the Wisdom was very busy. The director gave ten lectures on different subjects related to the “Science of Life”. After a few days, it seemed as if we had several jig-saw puzzles mixed together in one box and from time to time there miraculously appeared a nice picture, which was not completely coherent, though. Different disciplines use the same words, but these words have different meaning. By mixing them up one becomes confused. The director and the students were doing their very best, but one does not seem to be making a complete image out of the puzzles.

Almost every evening after dinner, we have tea and fruit, like watermelon or papaya in one of the rooms of the student dormitories.

Tuesday, after the afternoon class lasted after 5 pm, we just managed to buy the return flight ticket for one of the students from abroad. That evening we had no tea and fruit, so we could write most of our article for the School of the Wisdom. Many of the students had made their article on “Why to be Vegetarian”. Monday we did one sentence with cover page, Tuesday one page, Wednesday another page and Thursday a third one. It could be printed out at the office of one of the workers here..

We have a usb-stick internet connection in the students’ rooms and can communicate by E-mail and Skype with friends and family as well as with TS sections at home, but we have no printer.

Wednesday afternoon we went to St. Thomas Mountain, where there is a relic of the apostle of Jesus Christ, who came to India and founded a church in the first century AD.

It is nice to exchange experiences with the other students on subjects of the study and the TS. Even with the newcomers the communication during lunch and dinner begins to become more relaxed, once their jet-lag is gone.

The dormitories are  being refreshed and even the hot water distribution (by hand) is re-established. One day, there was no water at all in the morning, when we wanted to take the shower, but in the afternoon the shower was nice and warm.

Thursday we had lunch again in the Boat Club on the other side of the Adyar River. There were about thirty attending the lunch, which was in the form of a self-service banquet in a separate room. All together it was a bit too much for a simple theosophist.

On Friday we had the presentation of the articles of the students during the afternoon session of the School of the Wisdom. There was a rich variety of views on the topics of “Brotherhood of Religions”, “Life is Relationship”, and “Why to be Vegetarian”.

Saturday was a holiday and we were invited to participate in a trip of six of the students to Pondicherry and the Malamalapuram temples. Although the trip was rather fatiguing, we were happy to be in completely different surroundings than the classroom, library and student dormitories, where we have been almost every day during the last six weeks.

We have made a Sunday morning visit to one of the workers at Head Quarters, which was a good social contact and helped us to have a clearer view on the happenings during the oncoming sessions of the General Council and the Convention. It appears that this year there will be coming lesser delegates from abroad than last year.

The president of one of the TS Lodges in Chennai had invited us for lunch, tea or dinner on Sunday, but nobody wanted to come along this afternoon, so we decided not to go. The mobile phone connection was without coverage again and we could not even inform the poor guy. When he shows up, we shall have to present him our apologies. Advantage is that we have been able to make our weekly blog this afternoon.

Good bye for now,

Mr. Brooder

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