Easing your passage from and to India
So long, Poitu vaanga!
The India Immersion Centre at Global Adjustments hosted a unique traditional farewell to Andrew Simkin and wife Bess Simkin. Andrew is returning to the US after a successful stint in Chennai as the Consul General for Southern India. The event was attended by consuls of several nations and the ambassador of USA, Peter Burtleigh.
The farewell included a Indian traditional blessing with rituals from an Indian wedding (“Maalai Maatral” or the exchange of garlands) and some additional blessings from the five elements – Air, Water, Fire, Earth and Aether (Space). The farewell ended with a traditional Tamil blessing wishing that the Simkins receive all 16 treasures of life (“16 pettruperuvazhvuvazhga” translating into “hope you get the 16 precious things of life and live it fully”).
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- May you receive 16 treasures of life
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- Palikai – Sprouting of the seeds (blessing from Earth)
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- Metti / Arundhati star ritual (blessing from Space)
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