The Laughter, the Closeness🔗

One of the highlights of the Inner Awakening was spending casual time with an incarnation. Swamiji spent hours opening up to people, joking & laughing. Before every session he took the time to answer endless questions from the participants on (what seemed like) every topic under the sun - love, power, karma, morality, food, money, enlightenment, sex, just to name a few. He personally listened to each of the participants and helped them understand the experience they were having. In the end, everyone felt complete before entering each and every process. Swamiji spent casual time with participants on the field trips too. In Angor Wat and Bayon temples he took the time to explain the historical significance and the architecture to everyone. Even on these trips he would sit with everyone around him, and spend hours chatting jovially about everything and nothing. At the Kulean mountain - The River of the Thousand Lingas - Swamiji joined everyone in the falls, enjoying the water. At the site of the thousand lingas, he allowed for pada puja to be done in a stream with the participants sitting around him, in what he called the most intimate environment for pada puja ever. It was a perfect personification of what he stands for - being one with nature while adoring it, being one with the divine while offering gratitude to Him, the divine

A casual friendly sitting with disciples during the Temple visits

Simply stunning . . How to say which is - beauty in this picture ... !!!