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Peace inside and out.
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Seeing in the dark.
From the original text · Family tradition, with its sources
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Bringing the lamp in.
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A name on every breath.
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Telangana's storytellers.
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Purulia and Seraikela.
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Teentaal and Adi tala.
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Thread, beads and a promise.
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Temples in the snow.
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Ten days of a guest in the house.
From the original text · Shiva Purana
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Which way is God not?
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
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A bird that only said Rama.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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And comes back with a message.
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The sound before all sounds.
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Never arrive with empty hands.
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New clothes, new year, new start.
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The abhishek and the cow.
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And why that is fine.
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Diwali means a full house.
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Nine forms of the Devi.
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The mehndi night.
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The sixth night.
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A hundred voices, one song.
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I see the light in you.
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Milk from water.
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And how to tell them.
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Stories till sunrise.
From the original text · Art and music histories
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Trinavarta, and a baby too heavy to carry.
From the original text · Bhagavata Purana
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Panja Sahib.
From the original text · Janamsakhis of Guru Nanak
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Why the elephant did not pull.
From the original text · Oral tradition
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The water is yours, the well is mine.
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Pradakshina: keeping the shrine on your right.
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Before an exam, a journey, a wedding.
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Light offered to every part of the murti.
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Patterns that take all night.
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And why that is fine too.
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The lamp in the middle of the circle.
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Because it is a wedding.
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A year of you.
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Call and answer.
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Pride, tamed.
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A house for Bhagwan.
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Twenty-eight things a hand can say.
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Bismillah Khan at the wedding gate.
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Stone, water and light.
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An elephant who called out, and was answered.
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A farmer-guru, and the first langar.
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