Meeting at Assi Ghat. Daniel "Occupy" Balbony (Occupy meaning "Occupy your life"). American with Italian roots. Big-bearded man. Just like Viswajeet Ambat and Mayank Pahwa. The trilogy complete. We spoke for hours over many cups of chai. "I am enlightened", he said. Then he went into the details of sunlight and matter, humans and them being made of light, of how the earth was just star dust, "We are just stars", of plants, of ATP, the amount of sunlight required to move your arm and other things.
Oh, and ATP is Adenosine triphosphate, a nucleoside triphosphate used in cells as a coenzyme. It is often called the "molecular unit of currency" of intracellular energy transfer. ATP transports chemical energy within cells for metabolism. It is one of the end products of photophosphorylation, cellular respiration, and fermentation and used by enzymes and structural proteins in many cellular processes, including biosynthetic reactions, motility, and cell division. One molecule of ATP contains three phosphate groups, and it is produced by a wide variety of enzymes, including ATP synthase, from adenosine diphosphate (ADP) or adenosine monophosphate (AMP) and various phosphate group donors. Substrate level phosphorylation, oxidative phosphorylation in cellular respiration, and photophosphorylation in photosynthesis are three major mechanisms of ATP biosynthesis.
He also spoke of the rainbow gathering, of how he rejected Catholicism when he was five by asking the question "If He is so mighty and powerful, why can't He show us His face?", of teaching and how it sucks out so much energy but is still so rewarding, of God and how that word has been bastardised to mean "someone sitting up there pointing his finger at us telling us not to screw up".
Yesterday I was with Asha Ji at the Little Stars school, Nagwa, Assi. Aloo parathas for dinner. It was such a pleasant surprise to see Suraj Nath (the music teacher) there. We just connected, like old friends meeting by the riverside. He has a spark in his eyes. His friendship is so simple. Uncluttered. Had a nice chai with him at Assi Ghat. So, two consecutive evenings in Assi Ghat. Somethings bringing me back to my base camp. Mt. Assi...
Oh, and ATP is Adenosine triphosphate, a nucleoside triphosphate used in cells as a coenzyme. It is often called the "molecular unit of currency" of intracellular energy transfer. ATP transports chemical energy within cells for metabolism. It is one of the end products of photophosphorylation, cellular respiration, and fermentation and used by enzymes and structural proteins in many cellular processes, including biosynthetic reactions, motility, and cell division. One molecule of ATP contains three phosphate groups, and it is produced by a wide variety of enzymes, including ATP synthase, from adenosine diphosphate (ADP) or adenosine monophosphate (AMP) and various phosphate group donors. Substrate level phosphorylation, oxidative phosphorylation in cellular respiration, and photophosphorylation in photosynthesis are three major mechanisms of ATP biosynthesis.
He also spoke of the rainbow gathering, of how he rejected Catholicism when he was five by asking the question "If He is so mighty and powerful, why can't He show us His face?", of teaching and how it sucks out so much energy but is still so rewarding, of God and how that word has been bastardised to mean "someone sitting up there pointing his finger at us telling us not to screw up".
Yesterday I was with Asha Ji at the Little Stars school, Nagwa, Assi. Aloo parathas for dinner. It was such a pleasant surprise to see Suraj Nath (the music teacher) there. We just connected, like old friends meeting by the riverside. He has a spark in his eyes. His friendship is so simple. Uncluttered. Had a nice chai with him at Assi Ghat. So, two consecutive evenings in Assi Ghat. Somethings bringing me back to my base camp. Mt. Assi...
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