VIII Amritsar (by Isaac JG)

 Isaac takes the lead on the storytelling this time. I want you to know that he told me how to direct the filming of his monologues and planned his presentations solo. 

 Our time in Amritsar began with our first bicycle rickshaw ride into the Old Town. In a loud, second-floor hotel room with 2 double-beds for 5, we attempted to sleep early so we could rise at 3:15 to make our way over to the Golden Temple. Prayers begin at 4:00am, when the Guru [Holy Book: literally Darkness-Light] is processed into the Temple.

Isaac will take you through town on our Amritsar Day. That night, he and David and I rose to meditate in the temple court surrounding the holy "lake", along with masses of people from all over the world. Our friend Ad Purkh Laura had told us that we could help serve the free meal that is offered every day of the year at the temple, so we walked up and were given the job of passing out metal plates to diners from out of a box large as a utility trailer. We joined in the breakfast welcoming until Isaac's working partner – a complete stranger - took him away for morning tea behind us. Together we ate our breakfast with a roomful of people sitting in lines on the dining room floor – almost the last to leave as the clean-up zamboni  swooped in to clear the floor. We left the marble halls of the Langar (dining hall) mid the metal cacophany of plates being flung into great steel washtubs, on their way to the volunteer washing team.

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