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Kailash Manasarovar once more

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The Sea of Consciousness             There is the Urdu song 'Faza bhi hai jawan jawan'  from the 1982 movie Nikaah. It's about the second honeymoon of a young lady where everything is the same yet different. And so it was with me during my second visit to Kailash Manasaravor. I had made the visit in Aug 2017 (for an account of the visit see http://chiragdeep.blogspot.in/2017/09/a-visit-to-kailash-manasarovar-part-i.html ). And here I was doing it all over again. Why was I doing it again? When Edmund Hilary was asked why he climbed Mount Everest he simply replied that it was because it was there. What was unsaid is that the mountains especially the Himalayas are addictive. Was that my only motivation? Not really. A gradual process of inner transformation had started after my first visit. On my father's urging, I first stopped eating eggs. The next habit to go was alcohol.  Meanwhile,  various synchronicities led to my getting initiated into Kriya Yo