Dear Friends
The early 2000’s were an
intense period of personal growth and failure. In late 2005 I ended up in
California and spent 3 weeks walking the streets of San Francisco, including Haigh
Ashbury and the iconic Berkley campus and drinking its counterculture. I visited most of the major places of worship
and the notorious City Lights Bookshop that gave birth to the Hippie movement. It
was a Hippie pilgrimage!
The highlight was private
sessions with the foremost Malamati Shaykh in the Bay Area if not the USA and
an audience with the resident Swami at the Sri Vivekananda Temple on 2323
Vallejo Street. I met the Swami in the
traditional Indian way and touched his feet. We spent 30 minutes chatting and
requested some counsel he looked at me and said:
‘’For you Faisal. Take the
name of your Lord and be Happy!”...
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