again to India

(This post was originally posted in german on 3rd of march, but translated later)
Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krishna!
Against all my plans, i travelled again to India, the holy Land. After the common hectic and turbulent preparations and detachements from the native place i started the journey early in the morning togheter with Matus as my driver...
i shared the 5 am train from Bern to Geneva with some drunken carneval people (that was a good preparation to what lies ahead of me on this trip...) and the waited in front of the wrong gate at bthe Geneva airport (Hare Krishna!), again leaving the security zone and again security check, but this time with a long queue and not alone like the first time :) . Short stop in Paris and long stop in Kuwait. Met some friendly chineese, and of course the first indians. At the airport in Kuwait they have such glashouses for the smokers...
The security check was very chaotic, a big pushing, it was tapasia, but i overcame it humbly and brave :))
Early in the morning on 2nd of march arrived in Bombay, there with the transferbus to the domestic airport. i realize how mobilephone-addicted the indians are, everywhere mobiles are ringing, even in the airplane where it is strictly forbidden, and those who switched it off, turn their handy again on as soon as the plane had landed, i had one time three of those rayguns pointed on my head :(
the domestic airline (Kingfisher) was very good, and noone was interested in my 2-4kg baggage overweight or the creditcard confirmation.

At the security-check the officer ask me where i want to go to and when i answered :" to Jagannath Puri" he tells me that the security chief is from Orissa and sends me to his desk, and after a short talk with the chief about Orissa and religion he shakes hands with me, wishes me the best and i can pass.

A bag full of no more needed clothes accumulated since my departure from Aarwangen in Switzerland (-5°C) and at the arrival in Bhubaneshwar its really hot (35°C). Vishnu Prasad, a taxi-enterpriser met me at the airport, he was sometimes using two mobile phones at a time during driving... He invites me to drink fresh coconutjuice and after i explained him the way we finally arrive here in Puri at the ashram.

The ashram is very nice and very indian style, everywhere some improvisations and hack jobs, but very fine prasadam and very friendly devotees. i take shower and prasadam and darshan (in that order...)from the spiritual master HH BR Sadhu Swami Gaurangapada and the newly installed deities of Pancha-Tattva.