Sometime back Gautham sent me a link with subject “Reminded
me of you while looking at this”. As I clicked the link my eyes widened in
excitement. Primarily it was “the adventurist” website but the link was to “Rickshaw
Run” a recurring event organised by group.
The Rickshaw Run is an event where teams drive Auto
Rickshaws along various routes across India. The Rickshaw Run takes place every
6 months with a summer and winter edition. The route changes each time but
starts from the finishing point of the previous run. Initially the route just
included India but by the second Run teams were going through Nepal.
The Rickshaw is a vehicle designed to transport light loads
over small distances on paved roads, making it a challenge to cover long
distances. Each team consists of one rickshaw and between one and four drivers.
There is no set route and no support is given; only start and end point are defined
to be covered in two weeks. The route length range from 2000 to 3500 km usually
covers length or breadth of India now included Nepal.
Here is the link for your eyes to pop up Rickshaw Run
Gautham knows me well. He knows that inside I am a crazy
person who loves to do adventurous things and therefore the subject line. My
life is much beyond my work. I love to live life with excitement and ecstasy. Of
late a mist covered my excitement and liveliness making it is invisible.
But the link from Gautham reminds me of myself.
I love to travel secluded places of India and do the things
as inhabitants do.The route in the video
is passionate, it goes to very interior of India, it takes untraveled routes which
are unknown to us and they meet people who are unfamiliar to us, exciting my nervous
system to take a dip into rally.
I like most two things about Americans (I mean people from
west)
1) They live life their own way doing all what they want to do and
2) They
give their 100% to whatever they are doing.
This is the reason you see them doing many of our things much
better than we do for example Yoga, wearing Indian dress or even doing Puja or Samadhi.
Ancient India had these qualities which somehow we lost and still losing while copying
west.
In no specific order my list of such few things which I want
to do and accompanied by
1) Living 3-7 days as a Sevak at Shegoan Gajanan Maharaj temple - Alone
2) Vipashyana course at Igatpuri - Alone or may be with Ram (friend)
3) An outdoor camping - All friends
4) A
ride of Shakuntala Express - All friends
What’s on your list?
Cheers!!!
Mohit
PS: I would love to spend my time doing things for welfare
of earth and human being
