The rain held out just for the ceremony...

 Not only did this helpful stranger (Dr Himanshu) arrange for our accommodation, but he also arranged for a priest who would handle the ash immersion for us! On the day of the ash immersion (Juy 30), the downpour of the Indian monsoon threatened to sabotage everything at the eleventh hour, but suddenly, the heavens cleared, we made our way to the ghat, performed the final ceremony and came back….our tears of joy, the only ‘wetness’ we felt! To top it all, a day after we left Haridwar to reach Delhi, the highway connecting the two cities was shut down, because of the large number of Kanwadiyas (devotees of Shiva) walking on the road! Everything seemed to be timed with clock work precision – yet it didn’t feel like we had to micro-manage anything…it all just seem to fall into place…..perfectly!!

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  I can’t get past the feeling that perhaps there was some divine intervention in making all of this happen too.  On the day the ashes were handed over to Kapil Dev and Harmel Uppal in Warrnambool, the rain held out just for the ceremony – we were hardly twenty minutes into our drive back to Melbourne when Alice Guyett Wood called to say that it began pouring in Warrnambool straight after we left! We were in Malaysia, when an unknown traveller met us and offered to look after all our arrangements in Haridwar – a town that none of us had connections in. 

 
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