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[Alexandr Korol]

the site where Buddha was born, the mountain monasteries, everything. I immerse myself in all of it, climb into everything. But yesterday, the crematoriums really left an impression on me. I was there right at sunset and into twilight, with many people around. My clothes are now completely soaked with the soot from burning bodies. It’s intense.

What else? Well, I’m making contacts here, discussing things – I want to order wooden doors for my apartment, carved by hand. I’m currently negotiating, talking about different interesting aspects of production. I’ve been meeting with people here a lot. I even gathered a sort of roundtable of various shop owners. We all got together, and they even brought their kids. We talked, discussed how things work, how I could help them earn money, what I do. So, I had that kind of gathering two days ago. And throughout all of this, there was this fog – I’ve been spinning around in all of this here in Nepal.

And the first spiritual moment. So, the tour guide tells me that there’s a river, and the water level there – if it rises to about knee height, it means that Kalki is coming by that percentage. Kalki is the Second Coming. Yesterday, when we were by this river, which either flows into or is fed by the Ganges – something like that – this is the place near the crematorium. He says, “Oh, the water has already risen to waist level. That means Kalki is already at 50%.” I said, “Well, I’m really expecting it to be soon.” He said, “No, not soon.” I said, “Soon, soon. Wait, for the water to rise in the river isn’t a problem – that could happen tomorrow.” We discussed that for a bit. Then I told him:

– Listen, do you know the story of Buddha sitting under the tree, and then... – Oh, demons came to him?
– Yes.
– Yeah, yeah, demons came to him.
– And what did they want?,- I was curious to hear his response. Of course, I had already read about all of this and knew the story. He said:
– Well, there isn’t one specific demon – it’s more like different reincarnations. It’s all the same demon, just different forms. There’s one called Mahakala and some others.