Last Saturday and Sunday we continued to help with the weekend lecture series. There were only beginning classes, so both days the programs went until 2pm. We had lots of volunteers and staff members that made the setup and teardown really easy. The location was in a nice area of Delhi, where most of the consulates were located. You can see the before and after pictures of the venue.
I had the opportunity to chat with a few of the attendees. Suzanne and I talked to a very nice young couple both of whom work for the Gallop poll company. It is nice to see people from all kinds of backgrounds and all ages. The nicest thing is that it is very easy to talk to them about spiritual path and practices. They don't get freaked out when you use the word God. I also talked to another nice man who was in town for a few days to take his TOEFL (English proficiency) and GRE (math, analytical proficiency) exams in order to start a PhD degree. He had a Computer Science background like myself. He was flipping through the pages of newspaper and came across our ad. He had a day off so he decided to come to the lecture. How many people in the US would decide to use their free day at the last minute to go to a meditation class ? That's what makes India so special. There was another very pleasant gentleman probably in his fifties who said that he had learned about meditation some 40 years ago in school, and he said it took Americans to come to India to remind him about the beauty of it again. All the people I talked to were very impressed and inspired by the lectures.
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