To the north the sacred Narmada River flows through the 20- to 40-mile- (32- to 64-km) wide valley floor between the Mahadeo Hills and the Vindhya Range to the north.
It is a relief of a four-armed goddess of abundance, her two lower hands holding jars pierced with holes, her two upper hands squeezing her breasts, which are also pierced; through the holes the sacred water flowed into the basin.
"Havasupai" itself means "people of the blue-green waters," and it is said the sacred water "flows not only across the land, but also through each tribal member".
Every January he climbs the steep snowy slopes near his home in the Kii Mountains of Japan to meditate under the 48 sacred waterfalls that flow into the Nachi Otaki: one of the tallest waterfalls in the country, revered in folk legend as a living god.
There seems to be a prevailing assumption amongst PE teachers that people can just run, without any training in how to do it, and that, when passed a cricket bat some sort of sacred knowledge will flow through its handle, instilling the bearer with an understanding of the byzantine rules of the game.
Around the Barkhor, the city's central market, paramilitary officers in riot gear, all ethnic Han, march counterclockwise around the sacred Jokhang Temple, against the flow of Tibetan pilgrims.
There is nothing sacred about the free flow of capital when it devastates community after community.
And, while his campaign stuck for the most part to sweeping generalities about prosperity and good governance, essentially vowing to replicate nationwide his success as chief minister of Gujarat, Modi did make one concrete, actionable promise: to clean up the grossly polluted Ganges, the most sacred stretch of which flows past the temples and cremation grounds of Varanasi.
Most people fail at this because they violate the sacred rules of creating multiple flows of income: Never disregard the first flow when adding multiple flows of income.
Such offenses break the relationship with the sacred order or impede the flow of divine life.
