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Larchfire: Photography from India, Nepal and Tibet, plus quotations primarily from traditions in Yoga and Buddhism

Abruptly, everything that we hold dear will be snatched away from us: our possessions, our cherished plans for the future, our loved ones, and even our body and the miscellaneous collection of likes and dislikes, habits and opinions that we are pleased to call our personality. Unless we have worked long and hard to cultivate detachment from all this—in other words, unless we have been trying to lead the spiritual life—the pain of this separation will be terrible. —Eknath Easwaran, <i> The Mantram Handbooka </i>
<i> L2237 nagas, Hardwar Kumbha Mela</i>

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Abruptly, everything that we hold dear will be snatched away from us: our possessions, our cherished plans for the future, our loved ones, and even our body and the miscellaneous collection of likes and dislikes, habits and opinions that we are pleased to call our personality. Unless we have worked long and hard to cultivate detachment from all this—in other words, unless we have been trying to lead the spiritual life—the pain of this separation will be terrible. —Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbooka L2237 nagas, Hardwar Kumbha Mela

naga Hardwar Eknath Easwaran Kumbha Mela