By: Eostar

Eostar — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 22:35:00 +0000

Hi,
My name is Eostar, formerly known as Eszter. I am a long-time friend of Anna (Szavanna). When we were students in Hungary our world was pretty closed up relatively to what it is now. We just came out of the darkness of communism and the forced isolation of the iron curtain. Very few people spoke languages. We were just a little bit better off because we spoke English.
One night Anna took me to the Calcutta Trio’s concert. What a shock! My ears were hurting with the unusual scales, my being rebelled to the perceived dissonance that these never-heared ragas presented. It was really hard to sit still for hours listening to the odd melodies and watching people sitting still, emotionless, in a meditative state. My body and soul rebelled. And yet my spirit caught something that was in the air - a vibration so well remembered from past lives lived in India - the smell of chai tea in the interval. I knew this smell so well! And then seeing the beutiful tapestries they were covering the stage with brought up a breath of magic that was unexplainable. I was familiar with incence from India - that was not a surprise - but they added a lot to the magic. The beautiful Indian tunics they wore mesmerized my eyes.
So, eventually, even though the music hurt my ears, I left feeling an odd resonance with everything the Calcutta Trio presented. I was hooked!
Later I became a regular and got used to the “odd” scales and rythms. What’s more, Classical Indian Music became an organic part of my life.
The Calcutta Trio’s “Indian Music Club” that was happening every Monday in those days added an element of magic and remembrance to my life, bringing out parts of me that wanted to be alive, felt and acknowledged. I feel great gratitude to them to this day. Namaste!
I was very impressed by the ideas of guru-shishya parampara. As a teacher who taught in public schools in Hungary and the USA, I much appreciate any alternative model to the old classroom-style involving force and intimidation. These days I am exploring learning naturally from Source, opening up the channels and letting the information needed for the moment come through without blockage. This is my main guru-shishya parampara method. Total surrender to the one teacher - Source or Spirit as I call it sometimes.

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By: Eostar