Visit to Kamakhya Assam and Calcutta - Sp. Assignment for Kanna_Krishnan

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I am tempted. Sorry cant help it. How about pictures huh! We can

have a special photo journal page on KK visit in Kamakhya etc.

hehehehheee

[Guest guest]

Namste Nora ,

 

Yes .I would share the details of my visit ( pic included)

 

But now I need members help . Anymore members in Calcutta or Kamakhya ???

 

Jai Maa!!!

"N. Madasamy" <ashwini_puralasamy wrote:

I am tempted. Sorry cant help it. How about pictures huh! We can

have a special photo journal page on KK visit in Kamakhya etc.

hehehehheee

 

 

 

 

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Hope other members will be able to help you.

 

I went to Pune, Chennai and Bangalore about maybe 3 yrs ago. Thought

its good to have somebody to chaperone you around, I rather go out on

my own when my husband busy with his business meetings. So like

some "heroine" I decided to venture out on my own with my daughter to

see India on the sidewalk. The guy who is suppose to accompany us

around advise me repeatedly : do not hand out any money to anyone

while walking. I thought he is just kidding, and I never take his

advise seriously.

 

While walking along the street, came this lady holding a child about

the same age as my daughter, begging me for money or food. I pretend

to ignore but it seems so hard. She followed me all the way from one

corner of the road to another. Eventually I decided to just perhaps

gave her a rupee. That is enough. The next moment, I'm being

surrounded by others ladies carrying a child and some several

children with them. Lucky the same guy who advise me earlier was

following me from the back, he immediately pulled me away into the

waiting car and drove us back to the hotel.

 

I don't know what to make up of that experience, but like I have said

before, its hard to ignore those things you see around you. Hard to

pretend not to see when they are there right before your eyes. As I'm

being driven away, the faces of the ladies with children begging

becomes a permenant impression.

 

But......... given another opportunity, yes! I would venture out on

my own again. Get a good map, a good guide book or something, and

thereafter go on an adventure. To have a guide book is okay, but its

not as fun as when you try to discover things on your own. Take the

opportunity to talk to the people on the streets. They are friendly &

charming and always every willing to help you. Sit down together with

them, join in their feast and listen to the stories they want to tell

you. To me such experiences are more memorable.

[Guest guest]

I also would want to go to Assam for the visit to the Shakti Peeth and to visit

a great Buddhist terton named Kunzang Dechen Lingpa.

 

 

[Guest guest]

*** To have a guide book is okay, but its not as fun as when you try

to discover things on your own. Take the opportunity to talk to the

people on the streets. They are friendly & charming and always every

willing to help you. Sit down together with them, join in their feast

and listen to the stories they want to tell you. To me such

experiences are more memorable. ***

 

I just now read this message, and have to agree wholeheartedly.

Everywhere I've traveled in my life, this has always been my

philosophy. To be honest, it's gotten me into some perfectly beautiful

messes on occasion -- but it has also given me some of my most

cherished and worthwhile experiences. Sure, it's safer and more

predictable to stay on the beaten path, to follow the guide books and

guides -- but what you come away with is generic experience, stuff you

could see in any tourist's photo book.

 

I say, buy a book with photos of all the famous sites that you're

"supposed to" see, stick it in your bag to read when you're bored --

then go and plunge into the real life. About a dozen years ago, soon

after the fall of the USSR, I was living and working in Russia for a

while, and a friend of mine there introduced me to an amazing novella

called "From Moscow to Petushki," by Venedikt Yerofeyev, which has one

of the greatest opening paragraphs of any book I've ever read (the

speaker being a lifelong resident of Moscow):

 

"The Kremlin! The Kremlin! Everyone goes on and on about the Kremlin,

but I've never seen it myself. How many times already (a thousand!)

have I gone from one end of the city to the other, whether North to

South, West to East, drunk or sober, systematically or haphazardly —

and I never once have I seen the Kremlin! And last night? I didn't see

it again."

 

DB

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Namaste Friend,

 

When do you plan to go ,wher is this place you mentioned and why would you

consider it great Buddhist Terton ?

 

Jai Maa!!

 

Detective_Mongo_Phd <detective_mongo_phd wrote:

I also would want to go to Assam for the visit to the Shakti Peeth and to visit

a great Buddhist terton named Kunzang Dechen Lingpa.

 

 

 

 

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