This is India for you. I was shocked how poor/filthy it was just down the road from the Taj Mahal.
Makes me happy to be in North America but even here we got our filth, corruption, and bad mannered people.
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I love ancient India and its culture and philosophies.
Today unrecognizable.
I wanted to travel there for many years until ibsaw insights like this and stories from female friends who spent a few months there even with their husband's.
They said NEVER AGAIN!
I would still go just to see for yourself but oh is bad. The filth, the air pollution, the needy people asking you for rupees left and right. India is a wild place. My wife doesn’t want to ever go back but I have some ashrams to see and view + in the punjab (moga) I was treated like a celebrity because they’ve never seen a black person in their life which is quite funny because I’ve seen many Indians there much darker than me lol.
Food was great, chai was great, and everyone wanted to take a picture with me wherever I went or they would literally stare at me constantly without break or without blinking.
I’m always interested in how other cultures live especially in other countries.
After what I've heard and seen in reports, I don't think I'd feel comfortable bringing my wife there :(
Also there are lovely places to visit not just the dirt and grim. Just like in every country there are rich and poor places, India has it too like Mumbai. But yea definitely don’t go to a place where you will feel unsafe or uncomfortable with your wife.
There are some places that I’m cautious of women to go as well.
India is such a shit hole.
Almost everywhere else is clean and tidy, but India and Bangladesh are real world dumps.
Sad environment, and probably way worse in urban areas.
There is no doubt that one can find many disturbing things in India that can leave one in shock and dismay, but hopefully also with compassion.
India has many lessons to teach the traveler not used to such sights and ways. And as with many places in the world, there is another deeper layer below this “filth.” I have learned many lessons from a few times in India starting with, surrender. Things don’t look and work the way we Westerners expect or think they should. Surrender (in the most life-affirming way).
If you are a Yogi, then you also know India is the home of some of the oldest and most profound wisdom ever explored and understood by human consciousness.
Beneath a chunk of dirty carbon lies the diamond. I hope you also discovered that in India. 🙏
Yea brother i definitely agree with you. That’s why i said I’ll definitely be back, mostly to go to my guru ashram which I haven’t yet explored. Also many other holy places. Not sure I would bathe in the Ganges which isn’t necessary anyway but i definitely want to explore the places of worship there.
I love my India (lived there in a past lifetime) and I love my guru and my India friends. It was just rather shocking to see how fortunate I actually was living in the States when I visited there.
Even visiting Mexico I realized how privileged we are here as people there would work any job to feed their family but here we think we deserve better. Which of course we do but not in the way we think of it.
But yea India definitely needs to get some stuff together. They are smart, hard working people so the filth there could be fixed.
Egypt probably looks that way too, not that nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6mpd4czuumfw3jsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvql3tqm would tell you.
Oh I’m sure of it smh 🤦🏾♂️
