Exiting from Shri Krishna

When was time to go, I could feel it. One day I simply went to the marketplace with a guy who was attending an impro-dancing festival there, he was renting a motorcycle. I knew that it could cause some trouble inside the workplace but I was tired and what the heck, inside I had already decided that I quit, also one month had passed. Also some of the co-workers were getting upset and I had enough.

So I go with the motorbike to the market, sitting at the backseat, and we go to a coffee place or something and they offer me coffee (I think he was Italian) and then we go to another place and I get some milk drink also. Later we go back to the guesthouse and everybody was like WHERE THE F WERE YOU?? especially the quiet new cook.

And I'm like: AT THE MARKET! and try to calm it down and I manage it and then I say that I quit anyway. Somebody had left a bag with old clothes there, oh, now I remember! it was one of the beautiful German girls, not the one that I talked with but the other one. At least her cardigan was inside the bag. Also someone had left a cheap local flute inside that bag and left.

They're like: you can take it, yea, she probably left it there and now it's free to take. I mean the guys attending the impro-dancing festival that had now ended. This is also why I quit, big party over, dish-washing and hosting-work done.

So I take this bag to travel on and I go to the boss at the internet cafe and say that I quit and I want my salary (1000 rupis for 1 month). But they were a bit upset that I had disappeared before without telling them and so he talks to his brother (who was a bigger boss and now back near Delhi or something). And thru the phone his brother tells to give me only 500, because I had not worked properly. I agree and ask how do I get to the train station. We are actually happy to leave and it ended in peace and I apologize and all and we remain friends.

I get the instructions and I am free to go. I go with bus to Ajmer I guess were there was a big train station. In Pushkar there are only 2 bus stations, but the nearest train station is in Ajmer, which I think is few km in south from Pushkar.

In the train station I want to go to Varanasi but I don't find the right gateway entrance; then I go to the railway station guy in his nice old-fashioned office and ask how do I get to the Varanasi train, but he takes time and we don't really communicate very well and when I get the proper instructions, it turns out that the Varanasi train had already left 10 minutes ago. (In Pushkar I tell everyone in the end that I will go to Varanasi next, probably for the music school (sitar)).

But now what?? I am confused. I don't know where to go. What do I do? I walk in front of the railway station a bit and then go to the local internet cafe. Yay, I manage to find it inbetween the houses! I have these hindi trousers on that the boss had bought me and they keep falling a bit down, quite loose, not too down, but a little bit, not a problem for me. But as I enter the internet cafe, they tell me to pull my pants up. I also have shoes on at that time, my very own Puma slippers that I had bought from Tartu years ago.

So I go to the internet cafe and search for a place to rest. I am really tired of all this work (energetic work and cleansing and heavy disturbances and energetic hosting and harmonizing and relation-therapy). So I search for a higher-level eco-village to stay at. I heard that they have one in south-east India but that is very far. So I search Google for nearer and I find that there should be one nearby as well, I think it was Govardhan Ecovillage. I write Govardhan Ecovillage on a piece of paper. This is very fun. What happens next is beyond anything.

So I search were that ecovillage is on the map, I think it was like near Mumbai. So I take a train towards Mumbai. But I don't remember the exact stop, and even more, when I go on the train, I go to the sleeping wagon. But I had the wrong ticket (normal ticket but wrong wagon) and I could sleep a bit because there was space and the people were nice; but then the control comes and asks: hey, what are you doing here?

And I apologize and all and he says: You go off next stop and you have to pay 650 rupis. And I basically give him all my money, I think I had 600 rupis or something. And I go off the train at Surat. Now what?

I am at the middle of a strange foreign place, so what do I do? I think that the eco-village should be somewhere near, so I simply start to go by foot, I think that it should be somewhere in that direction thru the town and I start to walk. It is a very hot day and after a few km I get very tired and the city does not seem to end. So I sit down on a side of the street after having put all of my effort towards going to Govardhan Ecovillage.

Many local hindi guys start to gather around me, but I am too tired to talk to any of them too much, so I simply hand them the piece of paper where is written: Govardhan Ecovillage. I believe that they will find it, they usually have smartphones there. And indeed, soon they talk with each other a lot and then come back to me with an answer, that I am 200km in the wrong direction and I should go back to the train station.

I say that I don't have any money to continue that way. //

I will make a stop here but this is going to get a bit too intense :) I have told this story to one person but in a very concentrated form, and it is too much wtf anyway.