{"id":6743,"date":"2015-09-01T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obyoga.com\/blog\/?p=6743"},"modified":"2015-09-01T03:06:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T03:06:25","slug":"after-the-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/?p=6743","title":{"rendered":"After the Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Above – Check out the huge bubble on my fresh lime soda at the Chetak! Grand-E-Oso!! What exactly IS a fresh lime soda, you ask? It’s an iNdia favorite consisting of club soda, lime and sugar.\u00a0The drink is served like this: a glass with lime squeezed in the bottom, a bottle of club soda and a small bowl of sugar (on the side). Instead of a bowl of dry\u00a0sugar sometimes it’s served\u00a0with\u00a0simple sugar (liquid). When it’s all added together, it’s like a chemistry experiment. Rule #1, always mix the sugar with the lime BEFORE adding the club soda. If you add the sugar after the club soda is poured, an eruption occurs and at least half the fresh lime soda bubbles over the rim of the glass and all over the table nonstop (trust me on this one). Even if you add the sugar first (which I did above), there will still be a tremendous burst\u00a0of bubbles.<\/em><\/p>\n

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After seeing the Kelkar Museum Sunday, Nana took me and Jill to see some\u00a0more temples. This is the Ramakrishna temple. Ramakrishna Sangha was founded by Swami Vivekananda who was the first known person to bring yoga to the West. There are Vivekananda temples in Chicago and San Francisco, as well as others.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Plumeria growing in front of the temple.
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I captured this drive-by\u00a0photo on our way to the next temple.
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Does this need a description?\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is another St. Dyneshwar temple (St. Dyneshwar – the same saint who took live Samadhi in Alandi).
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Man sleeping in temple.
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The shrine.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here I captured\u00a0Kurma pointing toward the temple door and\u00a0the sleeping man with\u00a0dieties in the background – a 5-in-1!
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Hanuman (the monkey god).\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Cows like this one are common outside temples.
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A look at the temple from another direction.
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This man was sitting inside the entrance to the temple. He had a beautiful toothless smile, but when I asked if I could take his photo he quickly posed for me like this. After I took the photo, the\u00a0toothless smile reappeared.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Nana said this temple dog is always here.
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We then walked to this nearby temple next to a river.
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There was a group of people on some nearby\u00a0steps – men cleaning, kids playing.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It wasn’t long before the kids ran over and asked “What is your name?” “Where are you from?” I think they were practicing the only English they knew – those two sentences. But we communicated well enough to share some smiles and take some photos.
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There can never be too many selfies. Such beautiful faces!
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Then off to a second, much smaller Vivekenanda center.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Beautiful coleus in front of the temple.
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Inside the temple. The photo in the middle is Swami Vivekenanda.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Nana …
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Just outside the temple hall.
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Windows from outside the hall.
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You don’t see many of these in Pune. It’s a trash can!\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Back at the Homefront<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peace (did I already post this one?)
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It’s now 3:50am Tues\u00a0Sept 1 and I’m sitting in the Mumbai business class lounge trying to get this post published\u00a0before boarding.\u00a0I got 3 hours of sleep before leaving for the airport, so I’m hoping to get plenty of rest on my two legs back home. Next stop – Dubai, then LAX, then SD!<\/p>\n

Blogged on Amma’s MacBook from Mumbai with LOVE!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Above – Check out the huge bubble on my fresh lime soda at the Chetak! Grand-E-Oso!! What exactly IS a fresh lime soda, you ask? It’s an iNdia favorite consisting of club soda, lime and sugar.\u00a0The drink is served like this: a glass with lime squeezed in the bottom, a bottle of club soda and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_5299.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6748,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions\/6748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}