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... the rising of the sun, my nymph’ To A Rose To A Very Pale Lady Dressed in Green ‘With such distinction, such grace’ ‘What, out of ivory from the Ganges,’ A Lady’s Tears and Sighs ‘Sacred temple of pure honesty,’ ‘From the crystal of your divine hand’ Inscription for El Greco’s Tomb To A White Poplar Grove To The Court Ladies asking Favour for Andalusian Gallants...

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...on, such grace’ ................................................ 6‘What, out of ivory from the Ganges,’ ........................................... 7A... ...ne, so that he can neitherCry his misery, nor find ease in change.‘What, of the ivory from the Ganges,’(¿Cuál del Ganges marfil, o cuál de Paro)What, ... ...he ivory from the Ganges,’(¿Cuál del Ganges marfil, o cuál de Paro)What, of the ivory from the Ganges,White Parian marble, gleaming ebony;What, of red... ...on, such grace,.................................................. 6What, of the ivory from the Ganges,.............................................. 7...

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... Dream in Abstract? or is It the Manifestation Of the Struggle Of Those Who Practice in Material? Does It Originate in the Minds Of Professors Like a Ganges Flowing Out From the Hair-Locks Of Lord Shiva? or is It Rustic and Puerile, Evolving Into Maturity Through the Experiences Of Common Men. I Started Writing Philosophy Without Actually Knowing That I Was Writing One. To...

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...o practice in material?Does it originate in the minds of professors like a Ganges flowing out from thehair-locks of “Lord” Shiva? Or is it rustic and ... ... Philosophy and allpuerility and abuses purified themselves on the way – a Ganges doesn’tbecome pure by its origin but by the treatment people give to...

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... dream in abstract? Or is it the manifestation of the struggle of those who practice in material? Does it originate in the minds of professors like a Ganges flowing out from the hair-locks of "Lord" Shiva? Or is it rustic and puerile, evolving into maturity through the experiences of common men. I started writing philosophy without actually knowing that I was writing one. ...

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...o practice in material? Does it originate inthe minds of professors like a Ganges flowing out from the hair-locks of “Lord” Shiva?Or is it rustic and ... ... Philosophy and allpuerility and abuses purified themselves on the way – a Ganges doesn’t become pure byits origin but by the treatment people give to...

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...iri …Pages 23, 24, 44, 90,152 *The Lady who saved the Sasana...Pg 35 *The Missile Scientist and the CIA Spy…Pg 38 *The Story of a Photograph….68 *Ganges of Dhamma Flows Again… 82 *Was the Buddha a Pessimist?...117 *Emperor Asoka and Vipassana in Bairath, Rajasthan…133 *Mr ‘A’ Experiences Nibbāna…190 *What Happens at Death? …197 *The Passing of the Day….Pg 200 ...

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...he Sasana...Pg 35*The Missile Scientist and the CIA Spy…Pg 38*The Story of a Photograph….68*Ganges of Dhamma Flows Again… 82*Was the Buddha a Pessimis... ...t; it is just ahollow shell which they are performing. For example: At the source of the Ganges, in the Himalayas, the water is sopure, but it gets... ...away. Attachment to rites, rituals, ceremonies, any mantra —all that is thepollution of the Ganges water of pure meditation. Similarly, another rit... ...ork at the level of bodily sensations. *** The Ganges of Dhamma flows again From ‘The Early years, of t... ...nd Dhamma strength were remarkable. From that untiring compassionate strength flowed the Ganges of Vipassana all across India in the early years...

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...xman Jhula bridge gives pilgrims easy access to the many ashrams along the Ganges in Rishikesh. Photograph by Vincent J. Daczynski. Co... ... was not long before I found my way across theLakshman Juhla, crossing the Ganges river; then walking about one kilometer past the Kailashanand Missio... ... his long periods of deep meditation. For days Tat Wale Baba sat near the Ganges River wondering where he would find a retreat that was fully suitabl... ...i. Copyrighted; Free Use. 10Twilight view overlooking the ganges from the patio of the Ashram Photograph by Vincent J. Daczynski. Cop... ...ental Meditation program. The ashram was located on a hill overlooking the Ganges, just about a kilometerbelow the retreat of Tat Wale Baba. There wer... ...d he said that you can't stop desire because it is like trying to stop the Ganges. He said to let the mind flow. But,wherever the mind goes there also... ...awhile longer, but it was getting late. I still had to get back across the Gangesto my hotel to make preparations for my early morning bus departure t...

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...thejungle, toward Rishikesh. However, taking this shortcut required us to cross the Ganges. We approached a makeshiftplanked bridge spanning the river... ...ting on the Shankaracharya Nagar hill. The south side of the academy overlooked the Ganges River from a 150- 23foot cliff, ... ... released by a foot pedal washed away therefuse through underground sewers into the Ganges. The sewers clogged easily. They were not designed to passt... ...o a maverick cow that lazily passed by. I walked down the dirt road that led to the GangesRiver and to the many stunning temples and ashrams that repr... ... yet begun. Men and women dotted the ghats (steep stone steps)leading to the sacred Ganges, India’s river of healing. A few diehards descended the ste... ...pped hands full of water to their lips. To the Hindus theGanges is Ganga Ma (Mother Ganges). The river allegedly holds the mystical property of contin... ...rifyingitself of all waste and harmful bacteria. It is believed that to wash in the Ganges cleanses one of all evil, and to dieby its holy banks assur... ...hotographed this yogi just after he emerged from his morning plunge into the frigid Ganges. In the middle of the river on a bed of rock was a small do... ...from the annual runoffs of melted mountain snow. On a little sandy beach across the Ganges, bright reflected sunlight caught my eye; huge reflectors p...

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... alluvial, deltaic plain, built up by the Ganges River and watered also by t...

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...of mud. But mud or no mud, Maharishi followed his intuition and crossed the Ganges River. Formonths he wandered southward, alone and aimless, staying ... ...of that distance on foot. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi crossing the Ganges. Image source: Charles F. Lutes Collection. A wande... ...e spoke of building a largeacademy of meditation on the banks of the sacred Ganges in the foothills of the Himalayas.There, every year, he would train... ...emy. He found a beautiful place on a hillside with a magnificentview of the Ganges Valley and of snow-capped peaks. But the place he selected was smac... ...en after fresh surveying showed that four of the allotted acres were in the GangesRiver. The rest of the land was good though. Rishikesh is a small, p... ...own abounding in ancient temples and straddling a gorge1,500 feet above the Ganges near where the mighty river plunges out of the mountains onto thepl... ...ons and discussions in the moonlight on the sandy banks of the ever-flowing Ganges,with the majestic Himalayas towering above.” We all would have love... ...leasant evening discourses held by thelight of the moon on the banks of the Ganges,” she wrote, “but I refute the opinion that life hereis complete tr... ...g up to 115degrees, leaving no other recourse but to take daily dips in the Ganges. If the setting resembled summer camp, the business at hand was nev...

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... 32NOT THIS, NOT THIS… I AM THAT!because they wanted to shoot the Ganges in the valleybelow. The latest technology permitted them to usewirel... ...iver.Finally, they showed the saint the movie on the televisionscreen. The Ganges looked so real. Along with thegurgling sound of the river, it seemed... ...ing sound of the river, it seemed as if one was sittingat the banks of the Ganges, that was actually hundreds offeet below. They proudly told the sain... ...ork and asked, “My friend, can you please give me aglass of water from the Ganges that you have broughthere?” They were aghast and asked how it would ...

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...of all the earth,Is no fault of yours, you men of other birth,Who Nile, Euphrates, Tigris, Ganges taste.Africa, Spain, neither are you disgraced,Nor t...

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... THE PARADOX 198 The Guru of the 225 The Brain Ganges 226 The Mind 202 Pilgrimage at the Manimahesh ... ...ecided to wash the new pair of sandals with Gangajal (water of the river Ganges) and took them with me to Nadaun. I placed them next to the old ... ... beings or even visited shrines of deities and saints. THE GURU OF THE GANGES Santoshji of Nadaun walked down memory lane as he recalled his p... ...xt morning, Gurudev woke us up early and asked us to take a dip in the Ganges. The waters of the Ganges were icy but our orders were to immerse ... ... mantra, we had to swallow this water.” “Where one dip in the ice cold Ganges seemed impossible at the beginning, I managed to take 10 to 12 suc... ...there such a prominent tilakon Gurudev’s feet just after he got out of the Ganges?”“I was confused with what I had seen. I forgot aboutthe biting cold... ...n though I tried. All night long, I kept thinking aboutthe incident in the Ganges - about what I had seen - andthe more I thought about it, the more I... ...ron tilak on them! I realised that Gurudev had the power to purify the Ganges. I also realised that even though most times we related to Gurudev... ...t of Shiva. When Gurudev stood in the waters of theGanges, I felt that the Ganges had bowed to his feet anddone the tilak as a mark of reverence.”This...

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...narrate an incident that happened up in theHimalayas, where the holy river Ganges ows and gurglesin the valley below. A television crew from the west... ...heir sophisticated cameras andtook the permission of the monk to shoot the Ganges fromhis hermitage. After two days of intense work, they metthe monk ... ..., they metthe monk with their production and told him, “We havebrought the Ganges from down below in the valley rightup here to you”. The movie was pl... ... here to you”. The movie was played and the monk wasamazed at how real the Ganges looked. Being spirituallyevolved, he asked the crew, “You have truly... ... theGanges to my door. Now can you please give me a glass ofwater from the Ganges?” The cameramen were aghast and 85AFTERWORD... ... away. The monk explained that whilethe world may look very real, like the Ganges on thescreen, it is only an appearance.When I realized this magnice...

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...e in the Himalayas, 25 km beyond Rishikesh. In Lodsi, with a spectacular view of the River Ganges far beyond and far below, Imeditated for 10 days i... ... I felt contented. The Vipassana floodgates had opened and the infinitely beneficial Ganges of Dhamma flowed also to students outside India, t... ...ves to keep us safe. Below the road to India’s frontier, theDhauliganga River that feeds the Ganges flows as a muted torrent between toweringprecipice... ...en there is Tapovan three kms further up on the green Himalayan forestroad running above the Ganges. This unique zone mixes the aura of meditating sag... ...den lit up at night like in an fairy tale. Tapovanstands along the long, winding road by the Ganges to Tapovan up in the Himalayas. ... ...ting storm of summer. Then I seewhite, blue, green, red, yellow Hypalon rafts bobbing on the Ganges. Helmeted, safety-jacketed paddlers yell excitedly... ...ting fire. In the quiet of the fadingday, the Ram Jhula (swing) Bridge lights up to turn the Ganges at night into a river of gold. Across the Ram J... ...Bridge, and beyond the sandy, rocky beach of the 100-metre- 101wide Ganges, a narrow lane winds to the right beside the great... ...umming guitars in the evening light, young Mia Farrow and Hollywood starlets wanderingby the Ganges, is now a ghost village the Rajaji National Park f...

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...me speak excitedly about the in- ing to a small clearing by the Gangescredible truths of Jesus to my not so be- river, a small a... ... were shown our individual huts wheretwo full weeks by the river Ganges in w e w o u l d l i v e .northern India. A beautif... ... along the side of theretreat was over and travel upriver into Ganges. Nestled among the peaks atthe mountains, to find a place for soli- ... ... Baghvan. Only him, only him.We were walking along the Ganges to thesecond bridge and as we were just tocome upon the junction whe...

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...ting storm of summer. Then I see white, blue, green, red, yellow Hypalon rafts bobbing on the Ganges. Helmeted, safety-jacketed paddlers yell excite... ...ture office I had a grandstand view of Rishikesh that I never tired of seeing: the green-blue Ganges flowing in her life-giving mission to the north... ...e quiet of the fading day, the Ram Jhula (bridge) lights up at night and the quietly majestic Ganges below turns into a river of gold. Across th... ...ver of gold. Across the Ram Jhula and beyond the sandy, rocky beach of the 100-metre-wide Ganges, a narrow lane winds to the right beside the gr... ...ing their Martin acoustic guitars to blendin unique harmony. Young Mia Farrow strolling by the Ganges in the evening light. Not much meditation hap... ...fe’s problems can magically disappear by reciting a word. Or that sins vanish by bathingin the Ganges. John Lennon vented his frustrated skepticism ab... ...tortion called ‘Buddhism’ ”. The Beatles arrived in India a year too early. They missed the Ganges of Vipassana that beganflowing again in 1969 aft... ... I felt contented. The Vipassana floodgates had opened and the infinitely beneficial Ganges of Dhamma flowed also to students outside India,... ...e exists unique Tapovan three km further up the green Himalayan forest road running above the Ganges. Tapovan mixes the aura of meditating sages with...

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...Lake, six hundred miles up the Yang-tse-Kiang. Another dolphin, theSusu or Ganges dolphin (Platanista gangetica) of Brahmapootra, the Ganges, andthe I... ...ak drawninto long forceps-like beak, 7 or 8 inches long; confined to River Ganges and RiverIndus. It is almost blind. ...

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...gers finished firstbut brother Jebhad fixed the game.Mother India,how you bathe in Ganges’ bedsyet break the blocks of Jinn and Jain,your words of pea...

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...on here that the boundary of Greater Utkala region was from mouth of river Ganges in the north toriver Godavari in the south and Amarkantak hills in t...

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...ture.Theban mage, druid by the dark menhir,Flamen by Tiber, Brahmin by the Ganges,Fitting angelic arrow to godlike bow,Viewing the haunts of Roland, A...