The Walk was in
the East Coast Park, which is a 15 km stretch of outdoor revelry for locals as
well as tourists known for its variety of sporting, entertainment and dining
attractions.
After warming up
exercises, the members split into 3 to 4 groups and started walking along in
their own pace and sharing their thoughts, enjoying the beautiful sights and
sounds of Mother Nature. The colourful Bougainvillea all along reminded me of the significance Mother has given
to them.
She says that every colour of these
beautiful flowers signifies the awesome divine protection in ways like: attempt
at protection, discreet protection, Psychic protection, emotional protection, vital
protection, physical protection, integral protection, triple protection, manifold
protection and protection of the gods. My thoughts also took a walk along
Srimad Bhagavatham where Krishna says to Balarama that
“Look at the trees laden with flowers. The boughs are so heavy with flowers
they are bearing, they are almost touching the ground. It seems to me like they
are falling at your feet and asking you to rid them of some sin which they have
committed in some previous birth of theirs which has made them to be born as
trees.” (Quote from Srimad Bhagavatham by Kamala Subramaniam). Nature is
described by Krishna so lovingly, who is awed at His own creation!
Our host, Arjun
Madan took a long stride in giving us a warm welcome at his “My Manhattan” with
a cosy function room and the beautiful roses radiant in the presence of Sri
Aurobindo and the Mother. With meditation music, reading of prayers and
bringing blessings to all members celebrating their birthdays and wedding
anniversary this month, I felt the Ananda pervading everywhere. The brunch was
really delicious and fruit platter was heavenly with exotic fruits! Our sincere
gratitude to the young and bright host Arjun Madan, and the collaborators
Ramanathan, Ami and Sanjay, for the beautiful experience and memory to walk
forward with!
First Sunday of
every month is always one to look forward to by me and my family, to enjoy the
morning walk with our dear friends of Sri Aurobindo Society in the beautiful
parks of our scintillating Singapore and the get-togethers in the blissful atmosphere
at the hosts’ home!
Our dear Uncle
Patel, Mr Dhana, Dr Nadkarni, Mr Rajah and Mr Shashilal Kashyap have paved the
happy highway for that and we walk along with an evergreen gratitude towards
them.
-
Jayalakshmi
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On 6th September, we had our monthly
walk at East Coast Park, near car park F3. We tried to find a spot to do our
warm up exercises. The beach was a good spot so we started doing our warm up
exercises facing the sea. It was so tranquil that I could hear the calm and
soothing waves hitting the shore. After the warm up exercises, we took a group
photo to safe keep for memories.
We started our walk. I followed the veterans
Ramanathan uncle, Anand uncle, Saurav uncle who decided to walk till Changi
beach and return back. Ramanathan uncle and Anand uncle were ahead of us. The
peace was disturbed by the roar of jet engines. It reminded me of nearby changi
airport. The walk seemed never ending. We ran out of time so we had to return
back soon. We had walked about 7km.
After the walk, we went for brunch where we did
our opening and closing meditations. It was very peaceful during the meditations. The food was very delicious and all of us
enjoyed it. We all thanked the host for a good brunch and walk.
-
Dheeraj
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