Closing: A few Points

• The main paradigm invoked here seems to be two fold:
• 1. Through the power of one's devotion (bhakti) and the grace of god, one can attain liberation
• 2. One most clearly expresses this devotion by traveling on pilgrimage to K@^$ and performing austerities.
• Any connections???

• Communitas?? Perhaps, but it is secondary to the larger issue of one's personal performance and devotion.
• If I assert that this is an archetypal Indian pilgrimage (its characteristics, charaters, observences, etc. are appropriated by other pilgrimages) do you agree?

• Does that happen in other contexts? Yes, Shikoku, yes, Lourdes. Others??

• Can we consider this pilgrimage a mandala? Doubtful, this honor seems better suited for the pa^cakro^a pilgrimage.

• Can we compare the role of the pa%das to that of the church, EPE, walt, or the temple priests at Shikoku?

• Is the Sankalpa (the statement of intention) what distinguished daily bathers and tourists from pilgrims, if so what does this say about disney, what is their sankalpa?

• Is a semantic explaination of pilgrimage possible?

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