Grand Camel Back: Is Enlightenment Personal?

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Thanks Bob for the kind comments and glad

that you enjoyed the article. I am not a fashion trend setter but

appreciate the comment on my shirt. The shirt that I have on is a very

inexpensive Walmart shirt. It may have come from Madras, but I am not

sure.

I noticed that you like the pictures of the Grand Camel Back mountain

Michael Bowes posted in his article. Michael is a modern day sage and

has written about the similarity between Arunachala and the Camel Back

mountain. He would agree with you Bob about the spiritual force in that

mountain. I will copy this to HS which Michael reads and posts on once

in a while. He loves the Camel Back mountain and will enjoy reading

your comments on it.

Love to all,

Harsha

Bob N. wrote:

Harsha....this is Easter morning I write. Up early for day 2 of family

festivities, I got around to reading your "Is Enlightenment Personal?"

piece in the wee time of this Paschal Day. It's wonderful. I also am

looking at your picture.you look terrific guy! Intelligent, Serene

and Happy....what more indeed could one want. Well I would like a

Madras shirt like that. I still am enamored by Madras garments, in

particular the shirts. When young and attending University, they were

all the fashion, and I collected an assemblage of them in many

different types and colors...an accumulation that grew beyond the

limitations of my closet..obsession is another facet of mine that has

always required some respect for attention to limits needed to be

imposed thereof. I also need mention that upon scrolling down from

there, I noticed heading the posting by Michael, "The Guru Came as

Ramu - Conclusion", a photo of a mountain of particular import in my

life past. Grand Camelback! Mount of Mystery.........Paradise Valley

around her is aptly named. In a time not so distant past, well 4 1/2-

5 decades past......there was a far more unspoiled area around Her. On

old Camelback Road where now only commerce and lovely dwellings and

hotels and golf courses exist, there stood large stands of date palms

and desert floor as well. This has changed of course and how much I

can only imagine, as I haven't returned to those haunting areas since

the early 1980s. And by then things had already been dramatically

altered. From the time that I had left to that return, Scottsdale had

become a different place indeed. Indian School Road had been it's

final frontier, on one side, in those days of yore in my youth, but I

found myself bewilderd on return after two plus decades, to find the

old Reservation had been encroached upon by annexation or lease and

no longer presented the Vastness that previously one viewed from that

town limit side road as well. Oh my golly, I'm going on here far to

much and I will stop the memory lane thing.. because for real those

memories still live within, no matter what changes have been wrought

for and by the rush of our times and tribe. I was just wondering

though if that snapshot had been taken from Papago? Another

fascination with me that underwent the shifting of sands by that last

visit, but also an area that was pivotal for me long ago in that area

between Phoenix and the "West's Most Western Town". It looks as

though, just from the perspective of the shot, that this may be the

area from which it's moment and light were captured by the camera.

Just a silly question here. And a word to he/she that took that

wonderous photograph: both pysical areas, Camelback and Papago are

Spots of Power, and can perform upon the person walking thereon, a

healing and a bestowal of gifts and communion, that all words fail to

capture. And this sorcerous charm happens with one even without one's

knowledge or beliefs. Congrats to the fortunate here who so flicked

this pictorial representation. Thanks again for your gift of words

Harsha and for the memories as well.

......bob

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