with Sri Ganesh

... The mongrel appears to be stronger and follows me again here and there; there is only that odd keening sound it sometimes makes – perhaps just a need for affection...? G, while visiting here yesterday, was remonstrating that I ought to take it to a veterinary; but I don’t feel that way at all and, if the dog wishes to die here, it is alright with me; animals have their own quiet way to heal or to die, often in a secluded place... ... Rs. 10/- have been offered...

Sri Ganesh, Bard and Knight Of the Mother, Your Trust is entire, The Path is Clean and Pure, For, Through all denials And all The miasma Of separation, It is the One Who walks And Becomes...

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- 18-04-13:

... The mongrel is still weak; as soon as I have cleaned and watered, it rests in the cool shade... ... AV Murthy says he is not happy to see Ganeshji, because nothing gets resolved, nothing improves in his life...; but once he has poured it out, he still goes and does his pranam... ... Parthy has been to Tirupati for two days and brought a set rudraksha bead for Sri Ganesh... Rs. 10/- are offered... ... What is perhaps most scary is to find that, not only does there seem to be no progress of any sort, but that whatever perceptions one may have appear increasingly irrelevant, or at any rate more and more contradicted by the life all around. And in the body there seems to be a growing lethargy, perhaps a kind of fatigue before the unyielding nature of the obstacles – and the matter of mobility first of all...

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