74. Report - Winter in Germany

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Due to the long pilgrimage in India, I arrived in Germany with a lot of inner peace.

 

I now see my old hometown differently and discover many more beauties. I enjoy the old houses that have been renovated and the park in front of my new workplace.

 


 Autumn makes the leaves on the trees colorful.

It's been snowing for a few days. It's nice. The houses, trees, roads and fields are enchantingly white. But it's cold, there are minus degrees. Some people can no longer heat enough because the prices for wood, oil and gas are very high.

 

View from Josefs house to the neighbourhood
My friend Josef, with whom I live, has already caught a cold. He says he wasn't dressed warm enough.

 

In Germany people are always sick in winter - that's nothing special.

 

I am in good health. I also protect myself with CHYAWANPRASH - one of the wonderful things that exist in India. I think that we absolutely have to strengthen our immune system for winter. It sounds a bit crazy, but the exchange of microorganisms is also important to strengthen our immune system: new bacteria, viruses, germs ... this updates and strengthens our immune system in a natural way, even if we are occasionally ill for it.

 

Of course I don't want to be sick. But I think that being sick are important times when not only the body can recover, but also our mind needs to rest and relax. Many sages say that illness shows us what we have done wrong. And sometimes, on our sickbed, a divine grace emerges from deep below to show us something precious.

 
 
 
 
 


 

 



 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 


 

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