Sa and Ma, the Aurobindo ashram in Auroville near Pondicherry in Tamil Nadu. My guidebook to Indian ashrams is From Here to Nirvana: The Yoga Journal Guide to Spiritual India by Anne Cushman and Jerry Jones. Buy it now from amazon.com. In the summer of 1999 I met with, Lou Hawthorn, the man behind the Hells Buddhas website. We spread out a map of India, and he proceeded to give me advice on my route. "Stay here," he said, when you're sick. And here when you're tired and need a good refuge and a place to write." He continued, "and here when you want to escape the heat, and over here when you need to just be quiet for a while." Then he laughed, "I just realized that I'm tracing an entire route through India through places that give you refuge FROM India." Keep checking here for an index of the ashrams I visit, beginning with Auroville in Ponduchcheri. See related Dispatch GO BACK TO SPIRIT
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