Found an apartment in Mysore, right next to the Mandala Yogashala (yoga school). It is a Spartan humble and yet character filled affair consisting of 1 bedroom, a small separate kitchen with a single cylinder gas stove and a fridge, a bathroom and toilet all housed under a high vaulted tiled ceiling. Outside is an Indian style washing stone for handwashing laundry and a wall separating the landlord’s house from the 12 or so apartments rented out to yoga student. The landlord’s garden is lusciously serene and has some unique features such as “prayer area” housing the holy tulsi plant, numerous flowering trees and shrubs, tropical fruit trees, and a heady scented jasmine vine creeping about the wall that separates his house from the apartments. I like it here and it feels good to have a pad to call my own for now. The rent is Rs 6000 per month including utilities.
Each morning, his wife plucks flowers from the garden and conducts a puja (prayer to the household deity) and then places a single flower outside each of our windows.
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