Out of the blue some times ago my über-creative sister has asked me to take pictures of her new born malas.
Firstly hearing the question by phone I asked her: what’s a mala???
Honestly I did know what a mala was, it’s just that at that time I wasn’t thinking about mala and most of all that she could ever spend her time making one. I know very well her fascination for Yoga culture otherwise she would have never become a yoga teacher of course!! It’s more because creating a “necklace” takes a lot of time and I suppose she hasn’t a lot. Out of this familiar consideration, I have obviously agreed with the proposal and suddenly found my table packed with these beautiful malas – by the way this is not an adv-post made up to sell them out! I even don’t know if she is up with that for selling or not…
Anyway if you want to learn more about mala meaning she gives a very simple and charming explanation in her website: http://alessandrayoga.com/2010/10/14/beads-of-awareness/#more-606
As usual while taking photos my brain started working on its own.
I thought: Oh my God these malas are so gorgeous and so attractive. Out of my familiar proud, and taken that I don’t spend my time saying prayers and counting them out on the mala, I just realized that they were so nice to be worn on.
And with the same natural pattern of mind I conjured up my hometown and the image of all touristic streets nearby the Vatican City filled up with cheapjack religious goods. I don’t want to be offensive: I consider those cheapjack-goods not at all because of their religious purpose. What I realized it’s that most of these oriental religions have a nice-looking apparatus that now totally lacks in our catholic one. And the way they have tried to modernize some stuff seems to be only a no-U-turn-way towards the worst...
Of course I’m not suggesting that John Galliano should design a new Pope’s fashion collection… which would not be a very bad idea… I’m just thinking why not to make the all thing more appealing??
