Adyar, 9 December 2012

Photos of Adyar Beach with sea tortoise hatchery, January 2012 

            

                          

 

Adyar, 9 December 2012, 11 H

This week, the School of the Wisdom became more intense, because the students had to present a paper. The preparation of the paper on one of the Yogatatvopanishads or another book which could be related to Yoga usually took us most of the rest of the day. There were about ten students actively participating, of who eight have presented a paper. Some were very short and took only five to ten minutes, while others were longer and took about thirty minutes. The variation was great also in contents, which were based on personal experience, on one specific philosopher, on the Bahagavat Gita or on another Yoga book.  

This week, there was almost no reaction on the subject of the business transactions in our home country. On Monday, a TS member came from abroad, but he stayed only for one night. He had no Internet connection and wanted to continue with the job he has to do on another continent. Because it had rained a lot during the week before, there were many mosquitoes this week and he had been bitten by mosquitoes all night. Another student of the School of the Wisdom, who attended only one or two days, left on Friday. After running around for twelve days in Chennai, the destination was changed to Goa, which seems to be a more appropriate place for a summer vacation at the beach.

Because of the cyclone, which passed here in Chennai a month ago, the Adyar beach has been reduced and even parts of the small dunes have been washed away. What rested was a rather clean beach with smaller strip of sand. The subsequent rainstorms of a few days ago, which have resulted in higher levels of the water in the Adyar River, deposited a lot of debris and plant material on the shore. The fishermen even talked about the danger of being bitten by water snakes.

We saw two dead tortoises on the beach and the person, who manages the sanctuary where each year he reburies the turtle eggs, which he has dug out, in a place protected by a fence, said that he had counted three this year and that it was a normal number. The turtles would be coming ashore and lay their eggs in December and January.

Tomorrow, we shall have the opening of the School of the Wisdom again, which shall be on “The Science of Life”. Advised literature is “The Key to Theosophy” by H. P. Blavatsky, “The Theosophic life” by A. Besant and “At the Feet of the Master” by Alcyone.

We are looking forward to meet the new students and the director.

Mr. Brooder