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A Krishna devotees prostrate during their Parikrama around Govardhan Hill. Moving one stone her body length with each prostration (of 108 stones), the devotee in the foreground's s circumabmulation of the holy hill will require 12 years to complete. Her bhakti or devotion to Krishna keeps her moving forward, India, March 14, 2012.
It goes something like this: pick up a stone, prostrate while chanting the Hari Krishna mantra, place stone at arms reach while laying on stomach, get up with new stone from feet, prostrate, chant, place in pile, pick upâ¦108 times. Then, she steps forward to the pile of stones at her feet and begins anew. And she does this again...and again...and again...