Vesna Božović from Nikšić lives between Montenegro, Germany and India. She graduated in psychology and English, and is engaged in video production, music and writing.
Music with the band East Elysium is something that makes her very happy, because music and writing have always been her "deep love".
She is the first Westerner to enter a temple that has been open to Hindus for nearly 200 years.
"I had an unusual dream about that temple, in which I saw the interior: the altar and everything. I wrote that to their management. They consulted for 10 days, 200 families run that temple and decided to allow us to enter. It was surreal when I suddenly saw the images from my dream again in the middle of the day," says Vesna.
This year, she had 17 flights from Montenegro to India and around India, and she saw some very famous and hidden places that, as she says, are difficult to reach.
He states that he tries to organize his life between Montenegro, Germany and India, so that he spends at least one month a year in India, but in recent years he has been there for three months at a time. "Usually during the winter, when the temperatures drop here, you should go to a new summer. There are a lot of festivals in India from October to April so it's beautiful to be there at that time,” says Vesna.
When asked where India comes from in her life, Vesna answers that some things are simply there, as she says, as if they were implanted and as if we bring them from an earlier existence.
"In my life, it seems that there has always been the east, the sun, Asia. That spirit of the far ancient east fascinated me", says Vesna.
She is especially enthusiastic about Japan, China, Mesopotamia, Sumeria, Lemuria, Egypt.
"Then somehow with the book about Indian tradition, which I read when I was about 15 years old, it was as if a movie started to unfold," says Vesna.
She tells that she suddenly felt an incredible connection with India and felt more and more that the path of life would take her far from the country of her birth and that it would definitely be India.
"Without any special expectations, I just wanted to see the Ganges, the Yamuna, the Himalayas, to feel some special places and temples," says Vesna.
"Without any special expectations, I just wanted to see the Ganges, the Yamuna, the Himalayas, to feel some special places and temples"
She says that her wish came true quite early, because at the age of 22 she already went on her first trip to India.
He says it was a wonderful, incredible and liberating experience.
"I thought that everyone should come to India, to a country where it is a joy to live, where life is difficult, but nevertheless special and happy," says Vesna.
She says that she knew that she would study and learn a lot there, and as she states, she really did.
She especially remembers how joyful it was to feel that strange curiosity when the ticket to India was in her hands for the first time.
She states that the first impression of the atmosphere and pace of life in Delhi, and in the whole of India, which she could later see, was an indescribable dynamism and passion for living with a strange admixture of calmness and carelessness.
"I soon realized that boredom and solitude are just a "privilege" of the West," Vesna points out.
Customs similar to ours
When asked how Montenegro and India are different, and what are similar, Vesna says that India is a great nation with an ancient spiritual tradition, with an incredible leap into a new era of development and material enrichment, and Montenegro has always fought for its position in the world. hard fought, both warrior countries that have resisted various invaders over many centuries of existence.
He notes that in addition to being completely different spatially and climatically, India and Montenegro are also different religiously, culturally, and the mentality is quite unusual and strange for someone who grew up in these areas.
"It's strange when you're on the other side of the world, and when something you see reminds you of something so dear to you," says Vesna.
However, Vesna says that already at the very beginning of her stay in India, she noticed that their postulates of morality, some customs such as, for example, kindness to guests, great importance and attachment to family and family customs, are very similar to ours, as well as men's clothing in to the state of Gudjrat, which irresistibly resembles the Montenegrin national costume.
"Incredibly, when on the way to Dwaraka, one of the most famous archeological sites of India, I saw people working in the fields from the train, they were wearing a costume very similar to the one my great-grandfather wore. It's strange when you're on the other side of the world, and when something you see reminds you of something so dear to you," says Vesna.
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