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Lakshmi

In Our Time: Religion

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Americonasa and the Tortoise

Thares a sense in which expiration is going on from the very beginning. The poison comes up just as much as the nectar of immortality does, and jewels, oe, and the jewels come up exactly. But it's fascinating that they want to churn up the milky way to see what is behind it, to deliver what's behind it to them. And you also then have a glimmer of the theological foundation, literal and theological, of wishnu who takes the form of the tortoise upon which the churning is done.

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