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Date Posted: 11:11:56 02/13/07 Tue
Author: ketch - 11 Jan 2007
Subject: Unpollutable Ganges?
In reply to: ketch - 10 Jan 2007 's message, "Ganges too polluted for festival" on 11:10:42 02/13/07 Tue

An extraordinary, perhaps unique, feature of the "holy Ganges" is its unpollutability, its changeless sterility. No bacteria can live there; no Ganges-contracted disease is ever experienced by the millions of Hindus who use its waters for bathing and drinking. This fact is baffling to modern scientists. One of them, Dr. John Howard Northrop, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1946, has recently said; "We know that the Ganges river is highly contaminated. Yet Indians drink out of it, swim in it, and are apparently not affected" He added hopefully, "Perhaps bacteriophage (the virus that destroys bacteria) renders the river sterile."



The above passage appears as a footnote in some editions of "Autobiography of a Yogi." I have never been able to find anything about this from any other source. Does anyone have any information?

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