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Here it is - last day of classes! Tomorrow morning I leave Chennai at 5.30a. I have spent the past couple of days rushing around, picking up precious books and gifts, having meals with my classmates and generally getting in the move to head West. I have two notebooks filled with more information than I can actually grasp and words like "trust", "practice", "power of discrimination", "consciousness" and "freedom" floating in my head - except they are all in Sanskrit! 

Here are a couple of images from the past two days:

Evening time at the Ganesh Temple.

On my walk home, I met this very hip auto driver. He combed his moustache before the photo was taken.

An evening photo of one of the smelliest sections of my walk to and from KYM: above, the railway, below a small stream turned sewage by the illegal housing that has developed along its shores. It's a pity that Chennai can be so dirty and uncomfortable. During the past month I have often imagined what it would be like to visit a clean Chennai... maybe in 30 years?

Post monsoon Rain sunset skies.

Tia Milena Santissima, Protector of Sangheeta's new deluxe restaurant,

Provider of Food and Abundance.

On Wednesday night a large group of us met for a last dinner at Sangheeta's. It was a joyous meal, filled with laughter and good conversations. I also received one of the most informative and useful 15 minute intensive tutorials on cameras, lenses, photos, and ratios from Matt - hurray!

After dinner, Matt, Anjuli and I made our way to the renowned Sri Krishna Sweets - 100% pure ghee! The sweets were  amazing! Here M+A are kindly posing as customers, to the delight of the staff.

I might be able to add one more entry before I take off, but if not, take care!

xx B