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Naga Baba Shiva Giri
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He isn't a Baba known all over the world, with one long
wave of followers, but in some area of India, and above all in Nepal, where
he spends long period during the year, he is received with great joy from
their disciples. The movie directors Daria Menozzi has recorded a documentary, entitled Bike Baba, following him in his pilgrimages for 40 days. The documentary was trasmitted in May 2000 and also the magazine Sette, enclosed to one of the main newspapers in Italy Corriere della Sera, has published an article about him. His name "Naga Baba" means the Baba of snakes, but he is also known as "Bike Baba". This name was attributed for the characteristic to travel, from Nepal to south India, with an old motorbike. He travels for very difficult roads, forests, villages in order to acquit to his task of take aware the Hindu people to the conservation of the ancient spirituality that is getting lost. |
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The Baba is a free spirit, as I define some people. He has a large hearth
in one spirit of child. He alternate the wants to play with innocence
to the desire to be protagonist. The great eyes that warms your heart,
that wraps you and then, unexpected, forgiveness in something that you
don't know. |
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Patrizio Assi
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Photos by Daria
Menozzi and Patrizio Assi
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