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In Varanasi this year during Holi festival there was a long line of tents for the Naga sadhus (naked yogis) along the river. They will graciously host you in their tent, offer you chai, hash, and some will entertain you, ask you to become a disciple, or ask for money. My friend turned to me one day and said “Let’s go see a baba.” “I know the perfect one.” I replied. I had been making eyes with a naked sadhu for a couple of days now, an older baba that would laugh and smile every time I’d walk past. We’d dance and flirt. He wore round John Lennon glasses and a flower crown. As my friend from India began to lecture me on the dangers of following a baba I didn’t know, I had to stop him. “He’s a good baba.” “How do you know?” My friend looked skeptical. “He’s full of joy.” I grew up with the Bible. I also have signed up for teachers and gurus and leaders that taught me to follow my own connection above all else through trial and error 😂 To submit to a teacher is a very sacred thing. Now I look for fruits of the Spirit as we call it in the West “Love, Joy, Peace, resilience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” (GAL 5:22-23). Even my Eastern teachers say that judgements from the core of our ego results in hatred, doubt, fear, shame, aversion, etc. The teachers I resonate with the most at this point in my journey do not ask for full submission, but they build along side me, making good together. This picture is not of my Baba, who asked me to come back to the Himalayas with him to live. Which was tempting, very very tempting. . . . #varanasi #teacher #teachers #naga #nagababa #sadhu #india #bible #love #joy #peace #teacher #guru #sacred #journey #travel (at Varanasi - काशी - बनारस) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0ROA6KlyqZ/?igshid=gg4t9c6go46y

om namah shivayah

Closeups from the Kumbh

“Nagababa” armchair by ATOKOTA

“Nagababa” armchair by ATOKOTA

“Nagababa” armchair by ATOKOTA