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Storytime Tapestry Newsletter
The newsletter devoted to spreading love
and cultural awareness throughout the world.
Welcome to East Meets West – The bridge to
understanding the Mystery of India
A Gautami Tripathy Column
Oct 3, 2006
I am pleased to announce that Gautami
Tripathy will be resuming the East Meets West Column. If there are any questions about India
that you are particularly interested in, please write her, as I am sure she
would be happy to write a column about it.
Haridwar
Gautami Tripathy
Haridwar. The very name evokes the Holy River Ganges.
Faith. Devotion. Belief. Piety.
Har Ki Pauri. That's where the Ganges
flows. Walking
on the riverbanks, with Sadhus, Sadhvis and people
from all walks, rich, poor, different cultures,
regions, religions, but with a common thread.
Reverence, veneration for the Ganga.
As the sun sets slowly, the evening starts at the
river bank with oil-lamps, earthern-lamps and
drumbeats. Crescendo.Indescribable feelings. Beyond
anything. The river. Flowing, fast, furious. Icy cold.
When I took a dip there, my mind went completely
blank. No thoughts. No reflections. No musings.
Revelation.
Does everyone have this feeling? Is this what is
spirituality? Thoughts becoming no thoughts? No
questions in the mind. No answers. Abstemious.
Ascetic.
The Ganga does this to us. Strengthens.
Rejuvenates.
Restores devoutness, piousness.Washes away more than
our sins. Makes us aware of our own mortality.
(c)gautami.tripathy
s_gautami@yahoo.com
I wrote it in july 2005 after a visit to haridwar.
sorry for the broken thoughts. it was how I had felt
at that time when I wrote it. posting it just that
way..
s_gautami@yahoo.com
http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com
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