Yeah, who’d think you’d get to do Goa on work, right? That too at Selco? Well I did. :)
I just love the sight of a river meeting the sea, it’s always held my fascination. Tried to get a picture (thank god for flight mode on the smart phone) and this is the best I could do.
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| Mandovi flowing into the Arabian Sea |
It kind of brings out the whole Atman – Brahman as analogy so beautifully. Mandovi, in this case, a long river of 77 kms, flowing through Karnataka as Mahadayi and Goa as Mandovi, with an identity as huge as being the lifeline of Goa, and then how it merges so gracefully and beautifully into the Arabian Sea.
Goa is one of the most funnest places for a holiday, it’s just one of those places where one says ‘what happens in goa, stays in goa’….just as one does in Vegas. Sin cities ;)
But this was all work to me, I only had time to sneak down to the beach for inspiration through a ten minute walk, but got caught up enough to stay on for a couple of hours to catch a spectacular sunset. And my extent of sin was only a five minute conversation with a total stranger, which ended with his saying, I will keep shining and you will keep smiling :) ( his name was Ravikanth, and for those who don’t know, that means the Sun and Smitha means smile ). Little random fun stuff.
Work front was big for me, it was like a Venture Capital pitch to the Department of Science and Technology. A tad too technical to go into here, but lets suffice it to say, if this happens, like my mountain dweller friend wishes, we’ll be on our way to creating or rather replicating more SELCO’s on scale, spreading impact on the ground. So keeping my fingers crossed. Pray it happens !
According to one of the mythological story called Suta Samhita, Govapuri or Goa is associated with spiritually cleansing touch:
ReplyDelete...The very sight of Govapuri destroys any sin committed in former existence just as sunrise dispels darkness... Certainly there is no other kshetra equal to Govapuri [3]
A similar hymn praising Govapuri city is found in Sahyadrikhanda of Skanda Purana, which says the extent of Goapuri was about seven Yojanas.
Strange today it is associated with sinning.
Interesting...very interesting indeed. Maybe it still is in essence a deep cleansing. After all Sin is a relative term, and a societal creation at that; who knows, maybe what's called sin today is actually closer to the truth.
ReplyDeleteIf sin can be termed a relative term then truth can also be a relative term. Humans have this need to give names in their process to live.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm....true I guess. It's hard to think of truth as relative though. Perceptions of reality or truth can be relative, but truth itself? We've had right from Socrates, through Plato, Descartes, Kant, to our own JK not to talk of the Vedas, who've thought and written extensively on truth, and I think that lends itself to the process of evolution.... Where Knowing is that one step beyond Being.
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