So...does this make me Hindu?
So I'm laying in bed this morning, trying to sleep in and until my hangover wore off, when I get a knock on my door. It was 6 of the guys that work at my service apartment, coming to wish me a happy Ganesh Chaturthi (the day that Lord Ganesh makes his presence on earth for all his devotees).
The one guy who speaks a little english offered me a treat from a box of what appeared to be cookies and other Indian desserts, and then passes a silver cup of some type of red sauce in it. As I go to dip my cookie in it, and they start laughing and yell: no! no! no! it goes on forehead!
All in all, it was a pretty cool experience, and I'm pretty sure that I haven't oficially converted religions...not that there's anything wrong with Hinduism, I'm just not into making that big of a commitment right now.
Lord Ganesha
posted by icjohnstone @ 11:20 PM
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2 Comments:
Ian, nice going in the blog..
Hinduism for a change is a cool religion. You do not need to commit much. No need for a painfull procedure, no need to vouch for someone you don't even know, to be someone else's son. And,yes you can eat beef, pork and anything else that moves for that matter. So relax.. you are in India.. anything goes...you can do anything you like (no hard and fast rule or law).. you can be anything you want to be.. except.. you can not be the president..for which you will need to be able to speak the national languare properly, unlike in.. (sorry now that you are in India I could not resist saying that..)
take care and be safe
Sapta
Hi,
sauce for forehead and cookies for what?
sounds like it's a decoration too..
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