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Flex Mentallo

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    The walls are festooned with traditional paintings.
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    The narrow lanes team with life.
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    The vibrant quarter near the banks of the Ganges (Ganga), is known as the "Old City".
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    The main topic of this sermon is the Four Noble Truths, which are the central teachings of Buddhism. They provide a unifying theme, or conceptual framework, for all of Buddhist thought. In essence, they explain how to transcend earthly suffering, dukkha which comes from craving and desire. Or as the Buddha put it, from thirst.
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    Buddhism was founded near here around 528 BC when Buddha gave his first sermon after he attained enlightenment, "Turning the Wheel of Law", in a deer park close by at Sarnath.
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    One sadhvi wrote: Riding the blue sapphire mountains wearing moonstone for slippers blowing long horns... O Lord White as Jasmine when do I join you stripped of body’s shame and heart’s modesty? Mahadevi Akka Yakka
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    About ten percent of sadhus are women, called sadhvis.
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    Sadhus - holy men who have forsaken all worldly possessions and have taken to the open road - travel to Benares from all over India.
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    It is the holiest of the seven Hindu sacred cities, the earthly home of the Hindu deity Shiva. In a sense it exists both on earth and in Heaven at one and the same time. Therefore to enter the city is to enter Heaven.
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    The name Kashi may be translated as "City of Light".
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    It was founded around 1200 B.C - though excavations at Ramnagar suggest the area was inhabited by tribal peoples from as early as 1800 BC.
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    It is probably the most extraordinary place I have ever visited.
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    "Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together." Mark Twain
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    It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on Earth.
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    Nine miles east of Ramnagar on the north bank of the Ganges, lies Benares, also known as Varanasi or Kasi.
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    City of Light
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    I'm sure you are too.
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    If you can get me some dates I can book some time off.
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    We go up to London and down from it - bet you knew that. PM me next time - I quite fancy a day out in the big city! And for goodness sake we have to meet eventually - best get it done!
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    Oh! That's terrific!