A great householder? It begins with a great sense of responsibility. Everything thing else is academic.
From: Share Long <sharelon...@yahoo.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 7:23 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: the flooding @ Uttarkashi Ashram Purusha From Mi... Ah, Steve, now there's THE question of the day IMHO: what makes a guy a great householder? Obba, can you take a break from counting posts and answer this question for us? And guys, IYHOs, what makes a woman a great householder? From: seventhray27 <steve.sun...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 7:20 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: the flooding @ Uttarkashi Ashram Purusha >From Mi... oh, okay. thanks for that feedback. I also have a good friend on that course who comes back every couple years. it's always a treat to have him visit. he also is quite level headed, so to speak, and dialed in well to the culture, still. but I still think he would have made a great householder! (-: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WLeed3@... wrote:>> Mike was & still is very Level headed on Purusha now in India as stated we > communicant ofter i.e. monthly via: an Internet cafe 2 hr from him by > walking trail. He does so by some flash card ( or key like thing) not going to > town in person Purusha sends there individual computer messages that way.> > > In a message dated 6/20/2013 7:47:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > steve.sundur@... writes:> > > > I always liked Michael Thompkins. I never really knew him personally, but > as an administrator, he always seemed pretty level headed. > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WLeed3@ wrote:> >> > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________> > From: vtompkins112@> > To: wleed3@> > Sent: 6/20/2013 1:09:23 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time> > Subj: the flooding here> > > > > > Dear Bill,> > > > Hi. This email is just to let you know that I am fine in case you've> > seen international news about the massive flooding in the Indian> > Himalaya, including Uttarkashi. The bridge and road at the foot of our> > mountain went to their eternal reward in the flood and we are cut> > off--no road, no electricity, no postal mail, no cell phone, no> > Internet (for reasons too lengthy to explain we'll have the last two> > for about 24 hours more and then none for a while) but we expect some> > sort of road connection again in 1-2 weeks and electricity hopefully> > around then, too, and those should m ean resumption of communications.> > We have plenty of rice, lentils, flour, etc. and a big vegetable> > garden bursting with produce so we are set for food for a long time.> > And everyone here is in very good spirits.> > > > Very heavy, continuous rain for two days straight did it. Parts of> > Uttarkashi town fell into the raging river, and I've heard that the> > river bed there may have risen as much as five meters with all the> > silt and rocks coming down, and the higher river bed threatens to> > flood the town. But the other valley system, on the Alakananda River,> > had it worse. This is the height of the pilgrimage season and, they> > say, some 70,000 people are stranded up in those mountains and as many> > as 1,000 died, though I'd bet that each number is a gross> > exaggeration. Throughout the mountain region, the roads down to the> > plains are cut by landslides in multiple places, which is what has> > stranded all the pilgrims.> > > > Currently, the only way out of this ashram is by walking up to a> > higher meadow and then climbing a mountain slope to a ridge and> > trekking down into an adjacent valley system and there, hopefully,> > finding a public Jeep or bus, a trip that takes about six hours. Some> > of our staff are making that trip tomorrow for personal reasons so> > we'll hear from them how doable it really is and whether if, once down> > on the main road, one can actually get through to the plains or are> > there simply too many landslides for the Army to move soon.> > Eventually, of course, all the slides will be moved off the roads and> > the roads will be shored up. Presently, the overall situation is> > unclear.> > > > What has been very odd is that this happened about 1-2 weeks before> > the normal monsoon was due to arrive and therefore caught everyone by> > surpr ise.> > > > I'll write more later once we have a better communications link. For> > now, just know that all at Gajoli ashram are fine, with plenty of> > food, comfortable temperatures and decent weather (sun for the last> > two days). And if there were any really extreme emergency there is> > always a helicopter (at vast expense:>).> > > > Jai Guru Dev,> > > > Mike> >>
