Monk cleaning a car in Wat Burapha Phiram (วัดบูรพาภิราม) in Roi Et, Thailand

Monk cleaning a car in Wat Burapha Phiram (วัดบูรพาภิราม) in Roi Et, Thailand in November 2019

A sign at a gas station saying South Africa's cleanest toilets; taken in Natal, South Africa

A sign at a gas station saying South Africa's cleanest toilets in Natal, South Africa in January 2015

Men washing windows of an apartment building in Canberra

Men washing windows of an apartment building in Canberra in May 2016

A cleaner's trolley in Nong Khai, Thailand

A cleaner's trolley in Nong Khai, Thailand in June 2016

Man cleaning at the Mall shopping centre in Korat (Nakhon Ratchasima) in Thailand

Man cleaning at the Mall shopping centre in Korat (Nakhon Ratchasima) in Thailand in February 2014

Woman cleaning a window in Istanbul, Turkey

Woman cleaning a window in Istanbul, Turkey in January 2014

A cleaner sweeping up rubbish in Sapa, Vietnam

A cleaner sweeping up rubbish in Sapa, Vietnam in January 2012

Cleaners in Sapa, Vietnam

Cleaners in Sapa, Vietnam in January 2012

Cleaning the chedi

A cleaner at the Naphamethinidon Chedi at Doi Inthanon, Thailand in June 2011

Cleaning in Hong Kong

Cleaners cleaning railings in Hong Kong in September 2012

Window cleaning

Woman cleaning a shop window in Hong Kong in September 2012

Aerial cleaning

Cleaning office windows in Canberra in November 2011

Taipei Playboy

Cleaner using a broom on the side walk in front of a Playboy advert in Taipei, Taiwan in August 2010

Broom

A broom on Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok, Thailand in June 2011

Cleaning up

Cleaners on Shwedagon Pagoda Road in Yangon, Burma in August 2010

Building cleaning

Cleaning a building in Canberra in June 2010

Cleaning station

Cleaning brooms and bucket at a refuse collection point in Tai O village on Lantau Island, Hong Kong in July 2009

Woman cleaning

Woman cleaning a sign to an apartment block in Krung Thonburi road in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2009

Mobile dog wash

Mobile dog wash sign photographed in Canberra in August 2009

Clean oasis

This is the end of my Dera photos. The last one. Sorry, but all good things have to come to an end sometime, somewhere and somehow. And so my Dera journey also came to an end, not that I knew it at the time. But my abiding memories of the Dera and its associated philosophy are neatly encapsulated in this picture; The cleanliness and orderliness of the colony which contrasted with the dirt and decay found elsewhere in India, and the warm radiant smiles born of a philosophy where one receives by giving. This final photo was taken at the Dera Radha Soami Colony in Beas, Punjab, India in January 1990.