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The Final Days of the Group Living

By Luphil

The last day of our journey started with a fire ritual in the early morning – after another bath in the Godavari river.

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Around 9 we set out to the last part of our trip. After about 2 hs we left the highway at a little village and went up a hill to the Satya Narayana temple of Annacharam. It is a unique temple in so far as there Lord Vishnu and his consort Parvathi are worshipped together with Lord Shiva – an expression of synthesis.

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Entering the temple portal

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A beautiful pipal tree- the flowers smell deliciously

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At a little Krishna statue with cows we were blessed with “cow water” – sprinkling cow urin

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Offering fire

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A statue of Lord Ganesha

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Walking through the temple area

After the visit of the temple we went down to the village and were received in a house, where first there was a ritual in honor of Sri Kumar and later we were presented a delicious lunch.

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The delicious lunch prepared on “environmentally friendly” banana leaves

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A keen observer

Later we continued the journey to arrive at Visakhapatnam around nightfall.

Friday we had our final lecture in the retreat centre, ending a very profound seminar about topics of Cosmogenesis. In the evening a little ceremony closed the group living: Words of thanks were spoken and clothes distributed to all the members who have helped to realize this beautiful group living. Afterwards we all sat together enjoying a festive dinner.

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Julio from Argentina speaking about his experiences at the group living

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