Let's see...   The river seemed to cover it all - kids playing in the water, people playing cricket, bathing, washing of clothes, flying of kites, cremation, floating bodies and charred remains... Young, old, life, death, happiness, grief, everyday tasks and so much more all in one.  Putting all of these things together brought a feeling of continuity.  Beginnings and endings all happening at once.  A place for lone individuals, a place for death, a place for families, for children, for hope, dreams and salvation.

I'm not normally one to say such things, but it was easy to feel the power of the spirituality, in spite of the vendors and the contrasts of poverty and wealthy hippies "finding their spiritual path" through fashion and hand drum lessons...

Yes, I could sit all day along the river, in different parts watching the mix of activities.  Sometimes it seemed that I did, along with people of many gods, many beliefs and the requisite animals of various kinds.

The photos and words here, like all really, do not manage to convey the amazement and feeling generated, but...  here goes...


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Exit Takes you back to the page that brought you here - probably my travel page?

Intro Page Takes you back to this oh so clever and informative page.

July-05-2006 -- 05:47 PM Date the photo was taken.

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