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But here, when I put in, is as though I were in my own Bhotiyal. He looked round the little clean cell complacently. A low cushion gave him a seat, on which he had disposed himself in the cross-legged attitude of the Bodhisat emerging from meditation; a black teak-wood table, not twenty inches high, set with copper tea-cups, was before him.
Thus do we of Bhotiyal offer all the world daily to the Excellent Law. And I do it even now, though I know that the Excellent One is beyond all pinchings and pattings. He snuffed from his gourd. 'It is well done, Holy One, Kim murmured, sinking at ease on the cushions, very happy and rather tired. 'And also, the old man chuckled, 'I write pictures of the Wheel of Life. Three days to a picture.
'I am chela to Teshoo Lama, an Holy One from Bhotiyal within there. He bade me come. I wait. Tell him. 'Do not forget the child, cried the importunate Jat over his shoulder, and then bellowed in Punjabi; 'O Holy One O disciple of the Holy One O Gods above all the Worlds behold affliction sitting at the gate! That cry is so common in Benares that the passers never turned their heads.
'Now I pay, said Kim royally, 'and now I need another letter to be written. 'Mahbub Ali is in Umballa, said the writer jauntily. He was, by virtue of his office, a bureau of general misinformation. 'This is not to Mahbub, but to a priest. Take thy pen and write quickly. To Teshoo Lama, the Holy One from Bhotiyal seeking for a River, who is now in the Temple of the Tirthankars at Benares.
If need be, the River will break from the ground before us. I acquired merit when I sent thee to the Gates of Learning, and gave thee the jewel that is Wisdom. Thou didst return, I saw even now, a follower of Sakyamuni, the Physician, whose altars are many in Bhotiyal. It is sufficient. We are together, and all things are as they were Friend of all the World Friend of the Stars my chela!
Yonder is good Bhotiyal tea and cold rice. 'We cannot walk far on such stuff. Kim felt all the European's lust for flesh-meat, which is not accessible in a Jain temple. Yet, instead of going out at once with the begging-bowl, he stayed his stomach on slabs of cold rice till the full dawn. It brought the farmer, voluble, stuttering with gratitude.
The wise man knows horses are good that there is a profit to be made from all; and for myself but that I am a good Sunni and hate the men of Tirah I could believe the same of all the Faiths. Therefore I say in my heart the Faiths are like the horses. Each has merit in its own country. 'But my lama said altogether a different thing. 'Oh, he is an old dreamer of dreams from Bhotiyal.
My bones ache for that River, as they ached in the te-rain; but my spirit sits above my bones, waiting. The Search is sure! 'I am answered. Is it permitted to ask a question? The lama inclined his stately head. 'I ate thy bread for three years as thou knowest. Holy One, whence came ? 'There is much wealth, as men count it, in Bhotiyal, the lama returned with composure.
And I am a Sahib. 'Friend of all the World, the lama looked directly at Kim 'I am an old man pleased with shows as are children. To those who follow the Way there is neither black nor white, Hind nor Bhotiyal. We be all souls seeking escape. No matter what thy wisdom learned among Sahibs, when we come to my River thou wilt be freed from all illusion at my side. Hai!
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