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Postcard - "The
Golden Temple, Amritsar"
(Baba Atal in the background)
early 1900s
"'...at a shrine
where the swords, sharp steel discs, coats of mail, and
other warlike weapons of the Sikh warrior priests are exposed
to
view in charge of the akalis, I was greeted, to my surprise
and joy, with
a loving smile by one of the Masters, who for the moment
was
figuring among the guardians, and who gave each of us a
fresh rose,
with a blessing in his eyes...." (Old Diary Leaves,
Volume III, pp. 254-255, 1974 printing.)
In Olcott's own handwritten diary, the entry for October
26, 1880
reads:
"...In the afternoon we went to the Golden Temple again
& found
it as lovely as before. Saw some hundreds of fakirs &
gossains
more or less ill-favored. A Brother there saluted H.P.B.
and me
& gave us each a rose." - Olcott's Account Of Meeting
A Master At The Golden Temple In Amritsar On October 26,
1880.
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