2016-07-03

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1983 June: Kathleen M. ERNDL (1993: 78, 80) participated in a week-long group pilgrimage to several Goddess temples arrangrd by a Chandigarh religious leader known as Babaji assisted by one Bahjni (sister): »Babaji had gotten permission from the temple pujaris for me to photograph the pindis, something I have never attempted on my previous visits. When the crucial moment arrived, squatting in the dark, narrow cave with hundreds of people lined up behind me shin-deep in icy water, I was so nervous that I could not make my flsh go off. After darshan we went off in small groups to eat in various open-air restaurants near the shrine, and about midnight streched out blankets on the dharmsala floor and fell asleep.«

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