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13522925070?profile=RESIZE_584xBy 3:30 AM you can hear the yelping of the jackals subsiding in the distance, but much nearer in most directions, the sound of water is pouring in a sturdy plastic bucket meant for a morning bath.  Oh yes!  Everyone in the rented rooms have a shower, yet it’s custom to let that water fill up as far as possible.  That’s when the splash takes place.  That is your bath.

These sounds are routine for the early riser, for those who hurriedly make their way for morning worship, the mangal arati.
 
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Sounds by Bhaktimarga Swami

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Perhaps it’s the season, winter, that permits sounds to be more crisp and distinct. Whether inside or outside, noises subtle or loud had somehow got my attention today. Thank God for noise, sweet or sour.

Practically every hour the train just north of our temple/ashram shakes the window panes ever so lightly and with its companion is the gritty noise of its wheels gripping against the tracks.

You’d be lucky to hear the choo-choo whistle. While I sat, momentarily at a bench near those tracks, I

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