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Beautiful people of Namibia
your own. From my countless visits, I have I was back in the concrete urban jungles of
grown with several generations of Mumbai. In city traffic, I would gaze out of my
tigers. I know when a new litter is born, I car window, watching the world, but still not
know their names, I see them grow, from little taking in anything. A part of my heart now
cubs to fierce beasts. I have seen tigresses belonged to the wild and it was the wild that I
teach their little ones to hunt, to fight, to stay longed to recreate.
alive. So I slowly developed yet another passion –
The wild teaches many lessons. I have meditation. To be quiet when all the world
travelled with my grandchildren to different was moving. To be silent in the midst of noise.
African and Indian wildlife reserves so that To feel silence......
they can learn nature’s lessons. And through I meditate daily, just when I wake, for about
our visits, I have been able share and cultivate 20-30 minutes. And I know that meditation
in them a love and respect for the wild. will be instrumental in my life going forward.
I urge everyone reading this, young or old,
My Silent Side/ My Peace Side to inculcate this practice from our ancient
As I spent more and more time in the nature, customs as through this, one can be truly at
I realised it had a deep and nurturing impact peace.
on my soul. The more time I spent away from As I grow older, I am realising that I am still
crowds and people, the more I realised how discovering new passions within myself. I am
this was food for the soul. Being away from still learning new things, trying new things,
crowds, noises, telephones, started appealing doing new things.
to me in a way it had not when I was younger.
But I have found myself.
And I had another epiphany: being in the wild And that is the greatest gift any side of sixty.
recharged me when I was tired and lonely. It
recharged my soul. It was magic for my heart.
It was my meditation. I felt at peace with the
world. I began to long for that silence when
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