Jagat

As I mentioned in the previous post, I started an on-line newspaper a year and a half ago called Vrindavan Today . This post has been sitting here for more than a week, unfinished. As usual, when this happens the flow of time is producing changes, fluctuations of mood, and so does not truly represent the way I felt on January 1. On the whole, I am much less optimistic about the fate of this project. When I started this post, I had just posted an article on Vrindavan Today about Shripad Baba . While researching that, I read something about him that was on a blog by Hindi writer Karan Singh Chauhan . I did not have time to translate any of the interesting anecdotes that he wrote. But here is one: तो देखा आपने बाबा का प्रभाव । पैसे की क्या कमी है ? उनके इशारे पर लाखों आ जाते हैं । आप जानते ही होंगे देवराहा बाबा को । पेड़ पर जो रहते थे । बड़ी-बड़ी हस्तियां उनके दर्शन को आती थीं । पैसे की तो चाह नहीं फिर भी आने वाले बोरा भर कर रख जाते थे । आश्रम के चार कमरे नोटों की बोर...