Lotan Baba
updated 6mo ago
updated 6mo ago
Dashrath “Mountain Man” Manjhi was serious. In 1959, Dashrath Manjhi’s wife died from her injuries after a fall, being unable to get medical attention in time. He spent the next 22 years using a hammer and chisel to carve a 360ft path through a mountain, reducing the distance between his village and the nearest doctor from 55-70km to 1km. "When I s
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THE MADMAN----Have you not heard of that madman who lit
a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place,
and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!"---As
many of those who did not believe in God were standing around
just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one.
Did he lose his way like a child? asked ano
Jonathan Simcoe added
A popular anecdote about the height of his stardom was that he once visited three different cities across Andhra Pradesh on the same day in a helicopter to celebrate the success of Gharana Mogudu.
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It is a wonder—some would say a miracle—that this same man, who had been forced to sneak out of his home under cover of night to join the seventy or so followers anxiously awaiting him in a foreign land hundreds of miles away, would, in a few short years, return to the city of his birth, not covertly or in darkness, but in the full light of day, wi
... See morewhen I assumed the lotus position to meditate every day, Abraham also crossed his legs. But only to the degree that I was in the stream; only to the degree that I had given myself to Jewish spiritual consciousness; only to the degree that I practiced it every day and thus became part of it; only to the degree that its koans became my koans. On the
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