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Orange/Saffron Om at Newasa Mahadhyan Link to OM photo - Shri Khamankar's Picassa Album https://plus.google.com/photos/115731945062107049727/albums/5816890836469138305?authkey=CNPprZuHtdGhTw&banner=pwa&gpsrc=pwrd1#photos/115731945062107049727/albums/5816890836469138305/5816891708201523362 After the Mahadhyan at Newasa on 28th November, 2012 Ramnath Kamath, Anant Khamankar and Girish Borkar had stayed back after the Mahadhyan and after visiting the Pais temple at Newasa and a trip to Devgad we returned to the Trimurti Pawan Pratishthan school dormitory. We had planned to meditate at the lake side during the sunset. It was around 4.45pm and after freshening up we were to go for meditation. At this point Ramnath Kamath said he wanted to have a bath. By the time he finished the sun was already setting and Anant Khamankar started taking photos from the dormitory balcony of the setting sun. In the meanwhile Ramnath Kamath dressed up after his bath and we left for the lake si...

I was not as prepared for this marathon as the 2012 edition as the practice time was reduced to just over a month due to work pressure. Nevertheless, regular meditation and a diet of fruits and juice for breakfast and sprouted beans with salad of tomato, beetroot, onion and cucumber with butter milk meant that I had a low carb high protein diet which helped – dinner was two whole wheat breads with cooked vegetables. In fact I was doing 10km in just about 65 minutes. I did a 20km trial run on the Sunday prior to the marathon in 2 hours 30 minutes or so but this left me with blisters on both feet. I was taking Combiflam on the advise of my wife to reduce the pain and for the blisters to heal. I just ran 6 km every alternate day and rested on Saturday, a day before the run. I was on a complete protein and banana diet on Saturday. I woke up at 4.15 am and was in meditation for 15 minutes, after which I got fresh and started my stretching exercises. This time too I carried the camera in ...