Got a little cow dung between my toes when I wandered into the milking room. Snapping a photo of this guy attaching the automatic milker produced an "Hare Ram" from him. I think he was a little taken aback by the sudden audience during this private moment with the cow. The teeny calf in back had to wait his turn at the teat. I wandered to the back of the property and came across this little settlement of shacks and snapped a photo of a little girl finishing her bath. Everything pretty much happens out in the open here. Earlier in the day I saw a very old woman bathing by a public water pump, naked from the waste up, squatting by the side of the road, young boys, men and me walking by. She didn't care, nor did they seem to notice. Saw a man brushing (or rather cleaning since no brush was involved) his teeth in the typically Indian fashion with black tooth powder and his index finger outside his room at the ashram, instead of inside in the bathroom which has no sink, just faucets in the wall in an enclosed bathroom. The little girl in pink above was too cute to pass up. I think she lives behind the ashram in the shacks.
Showing posts with label Sri Ramanasramam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sri Ramanasramam. Show all posts
Monday, February 23, 2009
More of the self-guided tour
Got a little cow dung between my toes when I wandered into the milking room. Snapping a photo of this guy attaching the automatic milker produced an "Hare Ram" from him. I think he was a little taken aback by the sudden audience during this private moment with the cow. The teeny calf in back had to wait his turn at the teat. I wandered to the back of the property and came across this little settlement of shacks and snapped a photo of a little girl finishing her bath. Everything pretty much happens out in the open here. Earlier in the day I saw a very old woman bathing by a public water pump, naked from the waste up, squatting by the side of the road, young boys, men and me walking by. She didn't care, nor did they seem to notice. Saw a man brushing (or rather cleaning since no brush was involved) his teeth in the typically Indian fashion with black tooth powder and his index finger outside his room at the ashram, instead of inside in the bathroom which has no sink, just faucets in the wall in an enclosed bathroom. The little girl in pink above was too cute to pass up. I think she lives behind the ashram in the shacks.
Exploring Sri Ramanasramam
I enjoyed the ashram a little more fully after bathing, sleeping a few hours, eating a full meal and of course shopping a teeny bit. That always puts me in a great mood. So I caught a fairly good close up of a peacock and better yet, caught some of the strange cry on video with some preening behavior which involved opening the feathers a little, not the full on sexual display, but something worth seeing. I happened in on a bhajan singing below the huge portrait of Sri Ramana Maharshi in his diaper sitting on a tiger skin (not happy about that detail, the tiger RIP). Then another bhajan singing group which was a call and response with men and women. I snapped the photo without flash to show the hall. In the back is the shrine with the ashes of the Guruji (hence no flash).
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