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x.j.
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 Posted - Nov 24 2007 : 4:05:55 PM
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| I am interested in arranging a trip to India for a spiritual tour of a few power spots/significant sacred locations. Does anyone out in AYP land know of some business in India whom they could recommend for this? thanks. |
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Jim and His Karma
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Posted - Nov 24 2007 : 4:13:58 PM
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| If it were me, I'd visit only spiritually NON-resonant sites, so I could discover what inner mechanisms drive me to feel certain portions of the universe as being less full of God. |
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Shanti
USA
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Posted - Nov 24 2007 : 4:20:56 PM
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Hi John C,
Welcome to the forum.
I am sure someone will chime in on places to visit when in India.
In the mean time check and see if this thread helps you at all.
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x.j.
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Posted - Nov 24 2007 : 9:32:28 PM
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| And a point well taken, Jim, that I was imagining some supposedly sacred places in India, which presupposes some not so sacred place. It was a faulty, if not downright cliche-ridden assumption! |
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Jim and His Karma
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Posted - Nov 24 2007 : 10:39:17 PM
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We've ALL felt exactly the same impulse. Not cliche...just the normal human tendency to go looking for "it". Wouldn't it be great if there was somewhere we could go...something we could say...something we could do....that would instantly and permanently fill this universal human sense of spiritual void?
The world does offer pockets of TEMPORARY soothing and comfort. Sex, shaktipat, massage, Christmas bonuses, Playstations, hashish, forests, music. But to find the unvarying, immutable root of the fleeting dabs of satisfaction experienced from those things, one has to "do" less and "let" more. Meditation's a great technology to coax a process of letting. And it works everywhere!
By the way, I wasn't being a wise ass. I'm serious. I find it far more fruitful to open to God while in the checkout line in Bed Bath and Beyond than next to some idyllic lake. I do like idyllic lakes, though, fwiw....I mean, why not? Same for "holy places" in India. Nice! So, despite it all, there's no reason whatsoever NOT to go to India! If you're drawn, go for it! I'm the ultimate capricious traveler, myself! But as Buckaroo Bonzai said so wisely: wherever you go, there you are....
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x.j.
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Posted - Nov 28 2007 : 02:18:39 AM
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Thanks Shanti for your welcome, and the information. Thanks Jim.
Any other folks have any suggestions on where to go in India and with whom? Thanks |
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Christi
United Kingdom
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Posted - Nov 28 2007 : 10:28:24 AM
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Hi John,
Welcome to the forum.
Go to Rishikesh... possibly the holiest city in the world. As for businesses that could organise it... I don't know... I always just go, and everything seems to work out fine. |
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anthony574
USA
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Posted - Nov 28 2007 : 6:07:00 PM
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| Lonely Planet has very good books on planning trips, as well as Rick Reves/Reeves. If you're on a budget "Let's Go" series is great too. |
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Jim and His Karma
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Posted - Nov 28 2007 : 11:08:18 PM
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A good starting point might be Swami Dayananda Ashram in in Rishikesh, right on the banks of the Ganges at the foot of the Himalayas. http://www.arshavidhyapitam.org/
Insanely beautiful area, and it's the gateway to many holy sites, bearded dudes in caves, etc.
Swami Dayananda, fyi, is a fantastic old-school Vedanta teacher; he also has a center in Pennsylvania and divides his time between both. If possible, try to be there when he's there (the other resident swamis there aren't at his level). I see he's got a few programs coming up this spring (you wouldn't want to be in the himalayas in winter): http://www.arshavidhyapitam.org/announcement.htm |
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