Mantra on Hay

... those exciting straight roads through grasslands to our hotel for the night. We splurged out a bit on a really nice hotel called the Mantra Deep Blue, which was very nice but a bit out of place in this town but it looked like they were trying to develop ...

... this though and was loving it even though small stones were jabbing at my soles. I started a sing songsy  Om Namah Shivaya mantra first in my head and then out loud as i joined the stream of  jolly and peaceful pilgrims. Some people had recently ...

... dome that they say has relics inside. Around it are chorten-- prayer wheels that have "om mani padme hum," the Buddhist  mantra in Tibetan, inscribed on them. It means, 'hail to the jewel in the lotus flower." You turn these wheels clockwise as you ...

... you are cleansed to the soul in that moment, you are then able to face Shiva when he bends down to whisper the secret mantra of release from samsara. For centuries, people have thronged here to live here until they die. And it is not just those who ...

... relatives carry the strecher through Varanasi's narrow streets (and right under my guesthouse window) to the burning ghat, shouting a mantra praising the god Ram. Around the ghat, families of Untouchables (the lowest rank of the Hindo caste society - they ...