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Lovely to hear about your trip and the wonderful time you had! Loved the story,

thank you for sharing it.

Jai Ganesh!

Sy

vaayel <vaayel > wrote: Hi Group,I see we have a few new members,

welcome! I have been away for sometime!Sy, don't worry too much about the

'protein' material Take your time.I have also been busy. Last weekend, I

went to Rochester, Buffalo and Niagara Falls (US side). Mostly to see my

college, University at Buffalo. IT was a nice reunion for me. Mostly an

interesting thing happened in Rochester. I went to a temple (Sri vidya -

Goddess Kamakshi is the main goddess - diety) and there I realized something

from long back. I am not sure if I told this group, one reason I came to

Ganesha, was because about 5 years ago, I had a dream of Ganesha, my friend and

I travelled from Syracuse NY to Buffalo NY and stopped in Rochester (on the way)

and there we drove through the country and saw a very unassuming barn-shed

structure and Ganesha (a large statue on a chariot) was there. I went to pray

to it and as soon as I did, a few old Indian ladies came and took it inside the

barn. I don't care much for the meaning of the ending, it is the setting I am

worried about.This temple I went to in Rochester last weekend looked similiar

in appearance and location to that in my dream! You could not tell it is a

temple if you drove by it, one part is the big barn-shed and the other is an

elongated shorter longer building (both look rustic, like barns) They are two

separate buildings. Anyhow, it turns out these buildings used to be horse barns

before they were temples. I also met an American girl there, she was insari and

big kum kum on her forehead. She is married to an Indian (calcutta) and they

live in connecticut (about 10 hour drive from this temple) but come to this

temple for volunteering on weekends. She works for an Indian clothes company

called fab india. This is famous in India.Anyhow the temple was unlike anyother

I have been to in the US. Most idols, except Kamakshi, a ganesha and another

sitting to her side were gold plated (the three above were granite) so

everything glowed, it was a small room, maybe 30ft by 80 ft and it was crowded

of idols. It was very different and serence. They offered us tea and were very

nice and friendly, talking to us. This is also different of temples in US,

mostly people do not talk to you in temples, they keep to their own business,

so I enjoyed it very much.Well.. not much else on my side.JenniferDo You

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