HIMALAYA'S BEAUTY
THE WATER IN THE LAE WAS VERY BRIGHT THIS MORNING AS THE SUNSHINE LAY OVER IT. THE IMAGES OF THE TRIPLE MOUNTAINS DID NOT MAKE DARK SHADOWS AS THEY HAD LAST EVENING, FOR NOW THE SUN FACED THEM. EXCEPT FOR INTERMITTENT SNOW ON THE BANKS, FRESH GREEN GRASS LAY LIKE A CARPET ALL OVER. MANY WILD FLOWERS OF EXQUITE COLOR AND VARIETY ADORNED THE SOFT VERDANT GRASS. THE SHINING SNOW PEAKS LOOKED TO SATYAKAM LIKE MESSERGER, AND BEHIND THEM LAY A LIMITLESS BLUE VOID.
HE MIGHT HAVE LOST HIMSELF IN THAT WHITE, BLUE AND GOLD, WHEN SUDDENLY AND UNBELIEVABLY HE SAW TWO FLEECY WHITE BODIES AT A FAR DISTANCE, LIGHTLY FLOATING ON THE SURFACE OF THE WATER LIKED WHITE LOTUSES, MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD HIM. AS THEY APPROACHED HE CLEARLY SAW THAT THESE WERE SWANS! THEY WERE LARGER THAN USUAL, WITH AN OTHERWORLDLY LOOK. PINKISH RED RIMS ENCIRCLED THEIR EYES, GIVING THEM A DIVINE APPEARANCE, AN EMBODIMENT OF PURITY AND SERENITY, THEIR EYES HARDLY WINKED, AS IF CONTINUALLY OPEN. THEIR VERY SLIGHT TRANSPORTED SATYAKAM IN AMAZEMENT AND RAPTURE. HE FELT AS IF THE SWANS DID NOT BELING TO THIS WORLD. THEIR SAGE-LIKE BEARING, THEIR EYES OPEN BUT WITH AN INWARD GAZE AND THEIR SMOOTH SAILING RADIATED PEACE AND JOY ALL AROUND. SATYAKAM WAS ABOUT TO LOSE HIMSELF IN ECSTASY WHEN HE HEARD SOFT FOOTSTEPS NEARBY. HE LOOKED TO HIS RIGHT. HIS MASTER WAS STANDING THERE LOOKING AT HIM WITH LOVE AND A N UNKNOWN NEW HOPE. SATYAKAM REMAINED IN NEARLY TOTAL AWE.
THE SAGE SPOKE SOFTLY, LIKE QUIET MORNING MUSIC,
THERE HAS BEEN A LEGEND AROUND HERE SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL THAT THOSE TWO SWANS ARE THE EMBODIMENT OF SHIVA. AND HIS EXTERNAL CONSORT DURGA. THEY ROAM ABOUT ALL OVER HIMALAYA AND APPEAR AND DISAPPEAR AT VARIOUS LAKES. ONLY A FEW FORTUNATE SOULS HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH THEIR VISION, AND YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE, SATYAKAM.
SATYAKAM AGAIN TURNED HIS FACE TO BEHOLD THE DIVINE PAIR. HE JUST COULDN'T TAKE IN THE PERFECTION WHICH EMANATED FROM THEIR HALOS IN THE FORM OF DREAMLIKE BEAUTY, PURITY AND FULLNESS. ALTHOUGH IT SEEMED SHALLOW, HE BOWED DOWN TRADITIONALLY ON THE GROUND FACING THE ETERNAL COUPLE, UTTERING, WITH A TREMBLING VOICE, SHIVA...SHIVA...DURGA...DURGA.. IN HUMBLE ADMIRATION HE BATHED IN NATURE'S MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE.
AFTER A SHORT WHILE HE AROSE ON BENDED KNEES AND THEN GOT TO HIS FEET. ONE AGAIN HE LOOKED, WITH MORE INITIMACY, LOVE AND REVERENCE AT THE RARE SIGHT. THEIR FEATHERS WERE LIKE SNOWFLAKES, WHITE AS FLEECY CLOUDS.T THEIR LONG SLENDER NECKS GENTLY HELD THE RADIANTLY HALOED HEADS. THE GREAT BIRDS TURNED BACK AND SAILED SMOOTHLY AWAY AND AWAY, UNTIL, ALL AT ONCE, THEY VANISHED. SATYAKAM WAS STUNNED, IT SEEMEDA DREAM NO LONGER COULD HE HOLD ON. WITH UTMOST SURENDER, HE LAY HIS HEAD ON HIS GURU'S FEET. THEREUPON HE LOST ALL EXTERNAL CONSCIOUSNESS. WHILE HE WAS STILL UPON HIS MASTER'S FEET, AN UNEXPECTED DREAMLIKED SCENE APPEARED TO HIS INNER EYE. AN OCHRE-ROBED MONK, WITH SHAVEN HEAD AND BARE FEET, HOLDING A BAMBOO STAFF IN HIS RIGHT HAND, WAS STANDING UPRIGHT. HE RECOGNIZED HIS PREVIOUS BIRTH AND SIMULTANEOUSLY HEARD HNU OVERHEAD FROM HIS GURU, AS A CONFIRMATION OF WHAT HE WAS SEEING. ALSO THAT'S RIGHT, WHICH HE COULDN'T MISS. THE NAME OF THE MONK FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY AND HE COULN'T HAVE THOUGHT OTHERWISE. HIS FIFTH CHAKRA OPENED THIS DAY.
AS HE RAISED HIMSELF SLOWLY AND FACED HIS MASTER, QUITE CLOSE BY, HE SAW A PLEASANT SMILE ON HIS FACE. LIKE A MOVIE, ALL THE CONNECTED SCENES AND MEMORIES PASSED BEFORE HIM IN QUICK SUCCESSION. THE LAKE, THE SMALL OPEN CAVE WHERE HE HAD SLEPT LAST NIGHT. THESE SURROUNDINGS SEEMED VERY FAMILIAR TO HIM, AS IF YESTERDAY'S OCCURENCE. YES, HE HAD LIVED HERE, MEDITATED AND DONE VARIOUS AUSTERITIES IN HIS PREVIOUS INCARNATION!
HIS FACE BURNED WITH THE SWEET WARMTH AND BRILLIANCE OF NEWBORN RADIANCE. HIS EYES SHINING LIKE CLEAR CRYSTALS AND JOY UNSPEAKABLE FILLED HIS WHOLE FACE, NAY, HIS WHOLE BODY. THIS WAS HIS INITIATION IN THE PRESENT BIRTH, LINKING HIM TO WHERE HE HAD LEFT OFF IN HIS LAST BIRTH. THE BOND WAS SET.
THE HOLY MAN SPOKE AS IF IN A MURMUR, QUIETE IN TUNE WITH THE REST OF THE HAPPENING. WE'LL STAY HERE FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT, WE SHALL LEAVE FOR SONAR LINGA TOMARROW MORNING. WHENEVER YOU FEEL HUNGRY YOU MAY EAT, BUT ONLY ONCE AND NOT AFTER SUNSET. IF NEED BE, I'LL COME TO SEE YOU, OTHERWISE, I'LL MEET YOU TOMARROW MORNING BEFORE DEDPARTURE.
SATYAKAM HAD NEVE SEEN SUCH A BENEVOLENT LOOK ON HIS MASTER'S FACE- AND WHAT LOVE! HE WISHED TO CLASP THE WHOLE BODY OF HIS GURU, BUT ETIQUETTE PREVENTED HIM FROM DOING SO. THE AGELESS ONE APPROVED OF THIS CONTROL OF EMOTION WITH SATISFACTION , AND BADE HIM GOODBYE. SATYAKAM WATCHED HIM GOING, BUT LO! HE TOO, LIK THED SWANS, VANISHED SUDDENLY IN THIN AIR. HE HAD BELIEVED RIGHT ALONG THAHIS GURU COULD DO ALL THIS, BUT THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME HE ACTUALLY SAW HIM DOING IT! THE QUICK SUCCESSION OF THE TWO VANISHINGS JOLTED HIM TO THE CORE OF HIS SPINE, WAKING HIM FULLY. SOON HE SETTLED INTOTHE NEW DIMENSIONS OF HIS OPENING CONSCIOUSNESS.
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