A Walk Along the GangesDennison Berwick, 1986 - 234 pages |
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... village clothes , eat local foods , adopt local customs for washing and toilet and as much as possible speak the language . I felt that meeting India's people and walking through her villages and beside her most sacred river was the ...
... village clothes , eat local foods , adopt local customs for washing and toilet and as much as possible speak the language . I felt that meeting India's people and walking through her villages and beside her most sacred river was the ...
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... village ponds to grow or to be eaten by the larger fish already living there . Up behind the beach , on a stretch of flat , white sand , stood the lonely , sky - blue temple of Kapil Muni . I passed a man taking down the bamboo shutter ...
... village ponds to grow or to be eaten by the larger fish already living there . Up behind the beach , on a stretch of flat , white sand , stood the lonely , sky - blue temple of Kapil Muni . I passed a man taking down the bamboo shutter ...
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... village of Ganga Sagar had had to endure my toneless singing at evening prayers the night before . ' Do you have fear of God ? ' I had been asked in the ashram . ' Yes ' , had been my innocent but correct response , and I was then ...
... village of Ganga Sagar had had to endure my toneless singing at evening prayers the night before . ' Do you have fear of God ? ' I had been asked in the ashram . ' Yes ' , had been my innocent but correct response , and I was then ...
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... village clothes and continually had to remind myself to take small steps to avoid tripping , it removed one barrier between myself and the people I met . My long , confident stride marked me as a foreigner , but villagers were not quite ...
... village clothes and continually had to remind myself to take small steps to avoid tripping , it removed one barrier between myself and the people I met . My long , confident stride marked me as a foreigner , but villagers were not quite ...
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... village to help with cooking , cleaning and with the baby in return for food , shelter and schoolbooks . She was speechless and shy but often smiled at me from behind the chattering adults . After lunch , while the women ate , I was put ...
... village to help with cooking , cleaning and with the baby in return for food , shelter and schoolbooks . She was speechless and shy but often smiled at me from behind the chattering adults . After lunch , while the women ate , I was put ...
Contents
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Led North by the Sacred Thread | 56 |
The Inland Sea | 74 |
Where Angels Fear to Tread | 87 |
When the Land Dies | 132 |
IO Is it Cholera? | 151 |
Burden of Heat | 163 |
Tiger Tiger | 182 |
Up the Mountain Road | 192 |
Bathing at the Cows Mouth | 208 |
Equipment List | 224 |
Selected Bibliography | 226 |
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Page 43 - We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.
Page 79 - ... whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed : And on the pedestal these words appear : 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !
Page 111 - She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously.
Page 126 - There are two extremes, O Bhikkhus, which the man who has given up the world ought not to follow - the habitual practice, on the one hand, of those things whose attraction depends upon the passions; and especially of sensuality - a low and pagan way (of seeking satisfaction), unworthy, unprofitable, and fit only for the worldly-minded...
Page 94 - The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, GOD made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.
Page 126 - But to satisfy the necessities of life is not evil. To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus-flower, but does not wet its petals. "This is the middle path, O bhikkhus, that keeps aloof from both extremes.
Page 51 - I can see that in the midst of .; death life persists ; in the midst of untruth, truth persists ; in the midst of darkness, light persists.