Spiritual journey in north India, in the eighties, looking for Advaita vada
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From Almora, let's go up to Kalimat
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To continue our pilgrmage:
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We still have so much to discover
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Behind the veil of appearances!
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Like this very old altar
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Used by passing by Sunyasins (renunciants)...
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Let's go meditate with them
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In another temple, very simple:
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That of Kasar Devi.
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He is not as majestic as Jageshwar, not so old,
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But his simplicity is really Vedic:
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It is that of the Sadhu, who live naked.
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Here is their sacrificial altar
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And the palace where they live.
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With them, give up this world
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To find the door
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Of Deliverance.
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In the meantime, let's visit Sunyata,
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A Danish wise man, Alfred Sorensen
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Who lived there more than fifty years.
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He was a jivanmukta, a ‟living liberated‟ like Ramana Maharshi,
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Who gives him this name, Sunyata: ‟being non-Being‟.
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In 1936 at Arunachala, Alfred Sorensen met the wise man
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Who says of him ‟Here is one of us visiting us‟.
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Sunyata settled on this hill, at Kasar Devi.
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He called this place ‟Turya nivas‟: ‟Residence of the Fourth State‟. According to the Upanishads, the other states are those of Awakening, Dreaming and Deep sleep.
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He died at age 95 in California on August 13, 1984.
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Now we are ready to contemplate the Himalayas!
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Let's advance on the ridge, towards the top of the world!
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This ridge is called Crank's Ridge; from the sixties
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It is frequented by Hippies.
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But no need for drugs to contemplate Mount Kailash!
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According to a Hindu legend, it is at the foot of Mount Kailash, the Meru, axis of the World,
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That Adam was deposed, driven from Eden, on the shore of Lake Manasarovar.
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From there, he could contemplate the Paradise lost...