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“The Saint Explains”
“‘Ignorance colors our view of the world by modifying the Absolute with conceptions of name and form. One in ignorance sees a mountain and nothing of the Absolute. A Realized Being sees the Absolute over which is superimposed a “mountain,” a name and a form that attempt to separate it from what it really Is.’”
Continue reading“The Goddess”
“In her shone the heat of not merely a unitary sun, but of all the stars combined. From her radiated the heat not of a single lava flow, but of all volcanoes combined. About her spread the love not of a solitary wife, but of every wife, mother, and lover who had ever existed. Her […]
Continue reading“All Green”
“Everything outside the taxi was vividly green. Grass grew along the verges of the road; bushes surmounted the grasses; and trees towered over the bushes. Theo felt as if he had been plunged right into the center of a wonderful world of viridity. The greenness that overwhelmed him didn’t vary its tone in the slightest […]
Continue reading“Morning in the Himalayas”
“Theo looked around him at the glorious Himalayan morning. A tiny bushchat bird, whose ruffled head made it seem as if its owner had just risen from bed, sat atop a dead tree stem, like an architectural finial. Slanting sun beams, the breadth of giant tree trunks, highlighted portions of the mountains to his left. […]
Continue reading“On the Way Up”
“The glacier, which gave Theo the odd impression of flowing water (so wavy was its surface, so riverlike, its course), ended at the side of the brother mountain. Thousands of pieces of scree, smoothly polished gray stones, lay flat, like ill-fashioned flooring, directly in front of the spot where Theo stood. A butterfly-blue sky, faintly […]
Continue reading“The Temple”
“As Theo wandered along the riverside, just after he passed under the Lakshman Jhula Bridge, he came to the Tera Manzil Temple, a magnificent thirteen-story structure dedicated to the worship of all the various Hindu gods and goddesses. He had to step as close to the Ganges as possible, and completely crane his neck, to […]
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