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To: Jamey who wrote (33977)	11/19/2002 7:58:11 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

Usually they cremate their dead and spread the ashes on the water .... and yes they are certainly appearing as primitive to the western eye, but I assure you that these people have only the noblest of intentions with their pilgrimages that brings down holy men and women from all corners of the continent. Some 25 million last year came to the Kumbha Mela, some preparing themselves for many months in advance. And I do regard all rivers & bodies of water with reverence though , and consider them sacred . You must remember Santiago what you might regard as "primitive" superstitious people with visions and rituals strange to you , aptly describes your own "messiah" , who lived bare himself in the desert and ate locusts , was baptised in a river , and was more closely related to the Indian , than he is to you and most "christians". And he said blessed are the poor? Worshipping God for them is in all and every form of creation , though in Hinduism you find the first deep realizations of a Universal Mind /Spirit/Sould behind and in all things. If one wishes to worship God in the form of a snake or Elephant or mountain or River , one does so though it goes a little deeper than this , and far more poetic in it's epic scope than you could ever imagine . Regarding all creation as sacred is ancient and a very good practice , imo. Human "civilization" is very young in most planetary terms, and they have one of the oldest unbroken lineages of spiritual thought . And trust me , they have Holy men their that are very much a handful for any Jesuit scholar and theologian . Now that the "Mother Church " has been revealed as a fountain of skewed and slanted religious propaganda . Not to mention other "improprieties" . I have a feeling they will be bathing in the Ganges 10,000 years from now . And I say let them , for what is preserved in India since the dawn of human civilization is too precious a heritage to ever lose . Quite beautifully poignant it is , and it would be good to see Christians make similar pilgrimages to their "God" , whomever He might be .