Ganeshpuri India 1993
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This Holy Hot Spring with healing sulfur is well known in Ganeshpuri. Feels great once you get used to the smell.
http://www.siddhayoga.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurumayi_Chidvilasananda
from above link; "Gurumayi Chidvilasananda (or Swami Chidvilasananda) is the current spiritual head of the Siddha Yoga path. She is formally known as Swami Chidvilasananda or more informally as Gurumayi (the word translates to "immersed in the Guru"[1]). The Siddha Yoga lineage (parampara) was established by Bhagawan Nityananda, whose disciple and successor, Muktananda was Gurumayi's guru."
The Ashram in Ganeshpuri is very beautiful....fantastic gardens. At the time the only place we knew of where one could shower and let the water enter the mouth...and drink it...something that begs disaster anywhere else in India at the time.
From one of the links above " Chidvilasananda's ashrams have attracted celebrities, including Meg Ryan,[16] Melanie Griffith, Isabella Rossellini, Diana Ross and Don Johnson.[17][18] The Telegraph states that Scottish pop singer Lulu met Gurumayi.[19] "
I saw Meg Ryan's husband, Dennis Quaid once at the NY ashram. He stared at me very hard...I have been told I look like Robin Williams...perhaps the reason for the stare. Meg was inside the ashram Dennis was by his limo likely thinking similar thoughts as I, while I was waiting for my ex wife (the psychiatrist, to differentiate the two ex's.) Ashrams are okay. I like them...just don't want to hang out in one very long.
Also from link
Eat, Pray, Love
"Reporters for Salon.com and The New York Post have speculated that Chidvilasananda was the guru featured in Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir Eat, Pray, Love and its film adaptation. Gilbert became a devotee of this guru after seeing a photo of this "radiantly beautiful Indian woman."[21] She later went to the guru's ashram in India as part of a year-long sabbatical. Gilbert has not identified by name the real-life ashram and guru featured in the book.[17][22]"
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