with Sri Ganesh

- 23-09-08:

Sri Ganesh, Your smile Is an embrace Pierced with The finest delight, O crimson love Of the world Within the bosom Of Gauri, The White Shakti…

Aum

- 24-09-08:

Yesterday, I went to the market and spent for incense, camphor, oils and related items, Rs. 500/-

Today again, I had to ask to be replaced near Sri Ganesh: Parthy and Viji take care of everything; I just come a moment with Arjun, who is driving me to Jipmer in his car, to bring all the things I purchased yesterday; Arjun offers to Sri Ganesh Rs. 500/- … Doctor Karun Agarwal receives us almost at once; he has agreed to do the surgery himself and in his own department’ small operating room, instead of having me admitted the day before as would normally be the procedure; the surgery lasts about one and a half hour; he removes a large tumor from my cheek, as big as a walnut, and another, much smaller, from above my eyebrow. As the amount of tissue he has to cut and cauterize is considerable, he has to remove a patch of skin from higher in the cheek to cover the wound; he does two sets of stitches, one internal with self-dissolving thread, and an external one which will be removed after a week; he leaves a small drain and bandages my face like the “invisible man”; the smaller wound has only a few stitches and a small strip of plaster over it. Karun explains that it may take a few months for the sensation to return in that part of the cheek and upper lip, and for the scar to fade away…

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