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Eating with your hands
Feb 20, 2012 Spiritual Adventures

Eating with your hands

Eating with your hand is something that is common in Asia especially in India. The right hand is used and all meals are eaten with it. Today for lunch as part of our culinary journey we visited Sri Krishna Sweets, a restaurant in Pondicherry that is famous for its sweets on the ground floor of the building and serves lovely thali meals on the floor above. So, we taught the group today how to eat ...

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  • Chidambaram's Temple of Love
    Feb 20, 2012 Spiritual Adventures

    Chidambaram's Temple of Love

    This afternoon we made our way further south leaving behind the French colonial town of Pondicherry and arriving a couple of hours later in the temple town of Chidambaram. Chidambaram is most well know for its Siva Nataraja temple. Truly it is a temple of love as all are welcome

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  • More on Chidambaram's Siva Nataraja Temple
    Feb 20, 2012 Hinduism

    More on Chidambaram's Siva Nataraja Temple

    Sacred to Saivite Hindus the world over, this majestic temple complex sprawls over 40 acres and is dedicated to the Hindu god Siva. Here Siva manifests as Lord Nataraja, the Lord of Dance. Although there are many temples in South India dedicated to Siva, five among them are par

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  • The sights of Mahabalipuram
    Feb 19, 2012 Spiritual Adventures

    The sights of Mahabalipuram

    Up early this morning with the morning mist still hanging over the swimming pool at our beautiful hotel. After a meditation class near the beach, we set off to see more of the sights of Mahabalipuram. First stop is the Shore Temple a 1200 year old temple perched just abo

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  • No Plate Big Enough
    Feb 19, 2012 Spiritual Adventures

    No Plate Big Enough

    After class we took an evening walk along the promenade in Pondicherry which always seems to be bustling with people. Then we headed into town walking past a lot of the colonial type structures that are very much part of this section of Pondicherry. We ended up in Surguru restaur

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  • In the sanctum of a sacred temple
    Feb 4, 2012 Spiritual Adventures

    In the sanctum of a sacred temple

    We look today at day 3 of our journey where we spent the morning within the sanctum of the Arunachaleswar temple in Tiruvannamalai, South India. The temple is thousands of years old and radiates a spiritual power that is extremely palpable. Our group was blessed to have the oppor

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  • 200 Likes and off to India!
    Jan 24, 2012 Spiritual Adventures

    200 Likes and off to India!

    Our blog received its 200th "Like"s today as I make my way to India to begin our spiritual adventure this Friday. Thank you everyone for all the Likes. If you haven't Liked it yet please do so. Participants on the adventure have already begun their journey making their way from

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