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"Pongáio" was the name my Aunt Mona gave to a long, green, cool room where we gathered at her home —
replete with comfy chairs, a rocker, sewing machine, sewing goods, beautiful beads, shelves, books, bibelots, photographs, odds'n'ends, mementos of a life, treasures —
a gathering of all the useful & 'useless' things that so make life a pleasure.



Friday, March 30, 2012

Sand and sugar

-"Filho", disse o mestre [Babaji] embora aparentemente eu tivesse o dobro de sua idade, "pelos erros de muitos, não julgue o todo. Tudo na terra tem caráter misto, como uma combinação de areia e açucar. Seja como a sabia formiga que pega somente o açucar, deixando intacta a areia. Apesar de muitos destes sadhus ainda andarem na ilusão, o mela é abençoado por aluguns homens de realização divina."  p367

Mohamed Babu

Mohamed Babu
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Note: Looking for some ant, sugar, sand images to enliven this quote, I came across the images of these rainbow colored ants. Sugar, ants, no sand, though — but oh, so colorful! 
I then, going to the original link, found that the photos were taken by a Dr Babu, from Mysore, in South India... The same country, and subject matter pertaining to, as the author of the book the quote is from.

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