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Ashes in the River

Lokhi Menon January 8, 2008

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#5 Posted by Ras on January 14, 2008 8:31:19 pm

Lokhi,

Thanks for sharing this with us.

Regards

Ras
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#4 Posted by guarana on January 14, 2008 5:56:32 am
Re: # 1
Yes, Ejazharoon.
Water is such an important and powerful element, basic to us all and rivers are such wonderful symbols of life-giving water and death-dealing floods.So many great civilizations lived and died and lived again on river banks, too.
Cheers.
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#3 Posted by guarana on January 14, 2008 5:46:49 am
Re: # 2
Thank you for the appreciation. The non-brahmin was mentioned specifically because I had expected one and was quite amazed that he was not.......merely an observation, like all the other things I noticed even while focusing on the rituals. As you can see I, have not carried it further or made an issue of it.
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#2 Posted by rajesh_shankara on January 13, 2008 9:34:52 pm
Very well written Lokhi...Ashes and Water...the end and the beginning. The reference to the non-brahmin was gratuituous and avoidable. Wonderful narration.
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#1 Posted by ejazharoon on January 12, 2008 12:21:02 pm
Lokhi:

I suppose the river connects the living with the dead, in the sense that its water is essential to life but the ashes of the dead are returned to it.
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