AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER
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What is the difference between living in Pondy and staying outside and doing yoga? Which is best for spiritual growth🤔?

It is the difference between lighting a beautiful lamp at an altar built in the home and making the altar itself your home and plunging into the lamp itself to be fully consumed by its fire. Or it is like carrying Ganga water in a bottle to sip everyday and plunging completely into the Ganga itself to drown and be redeemed.

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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