Wednesday 26 December 2018

You are meant to come here


In Ahmedabad we got up early to join the heritage walk, only to be taken to the wrong Swaminarayan temple. Too late to join the walk we meet an Anglo-Indian woman who talked to us about the temple and then we join her husband for a free breakfast, which is offered at many temples. Her take was that we were meant to come there, so we went with the flow and followed her recommendation to head to the nearby Swaminarayan ashram, the same Hindu sect of the Neasden temple, the largest Indian temple outside of India. Escaping the city chaos was welcome and the ashram was a tranquil oasis, and we were the only westerners in sight!  Very different from other ashrams I’ve visited, as the devout were all Indian. 

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