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  • Lion's Roar

    Dipa Ma

    Jan 21, 2020 2 minutes

    I’D BEEN STUDYING in India for only a short time when I met Dipa Ma. She quickly became one of the strongest influences in my meditation practice.

    Dipa Ma lived in a poor neighborhood in Calcutta. The staircase leading up the four flights to her room wasn’t well maintained—it was dank and dark—yet when the door to her room opened,

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