One day when I was in Mainz in 2003, my phone rang and when I picked up, I was happy to hear my new friend, the writer from Copenhagen. We talked a while, he asked how I was and what I was doing. You can imagine that my English had really improved since my first lecture. I had been able to go to Copenhagen where nobody spoke Hindi and I stayed in touch with European people now – talking and writing in English. So I told my friend on phone that I was in Mainz and gave lectures and healing sessions. He told me that he had some free time and that he would like to come with his caravan. I said that he was very welcome.
That is how he arrived, just a day or two later, with his mobile home in front of the Indian restaurant. I had told my hosts that he would visit me and they welcomed him happily, too. After taking some time to arrive, he asked me to come with him, he wanted to show me his caravan.
It was a fully new concept for me that people would travel and then sleep in their car, which actually looked like a house. It was quite big in my eyes, two or three people could comfortably live in there. It had a toilet and a small space for cooking, a table and a couch which could turn into a bed. I was really amazed and thought that this is really a nice thing. I even thought that maybe someday I could get one like these and travel to India with it.
While the caravan was a nice place for travelling and great for sleeping, my friend preferred using the bathroom that I used and we also ate together at the restaurant. We had time to talk and in one of our talks, he told me some great news. He had fallen in love with my friend, the woman who had picked me up for the disco. I had introduced the two of them to each other and after I had gone, they had met several times and had really hit it off. They were now a couple. I was very happy to hear that and expressed this joy, too.
On one of the days, while my Danish friend was there, the woman from Frankfurt had scheduled my lecture in Frankfurt at the yoga center where I had given a lecture before. I told my friend about that appointment that I had and he just said ‘Good, we can go there in my caravan’. So I also got to go from Mainz to Frankfurt in the caravan.
Once at the yoga center, I started my lecture and talked about the topic I had been given. Following some spontaneous idea though, I introduced my friend the writer to the audience. I knew he saw himself as a philosopher, too, and that he had experience talking to people and so I asked him whether he wanted to say something – and so he came up and joined me in my lecture.
It was definitely something that nobody had expected but that is how I have always been. I like to be spontaneous and I like just doing things out of the moment, without knowing about it even a minute before.
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Dear Swami Ji, I think its great that you are such a spontaneous person and do whatever you feel to do instead of doing what you should do. For many people its hard to do taht. But by this you can give this moment a chance to develop into something comepletly new and special.
Life should be more full of spontaneity, that keeps it interesting and more enjoyable, less likely to be bored and less likely to fall victim to depression. Being spontaneous is like laughter…it’s good for your health.