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Said the Sahiba cheerily from an upper window, after compliments: 'What is the good of an old woman's advice to an old man? I told thee I told thee, Holy One, to keep an eye upon the chela. How didst thou do it? Never answer me! I know. He has been running among the women. Look at his eyes hollow and sunk and the Betraying Line from the nose down! He has been sifted out! Fie! Fie!
The lama was mildly surprised that anyone should object to the knife-edged breezes which had cut the years off his shoulders. 'These are but the lower hills, chela. There is no cold till we come to the true Hills. 'Air and water are good, and the people are devout enough, but the food is very bad, Kim growled; 'and we walk as though we were mad or English. It freezes at night, too.
I am thy chela, and my head is heavy on my shoulders. 'Patience a little! We reach Freedom together. Then thou and I, upon the far bank of the River, will look back upon our lives as in the Hills we saw our days' marches laid out behind us. Perhaps I was once a Sahib. 'Was never a Sahib like thee, I swear it.
He begged in the dawn, set blankets for the lama's meditation, held the weary head on his lap through the noonday heats, fanning away the flies till his wrists ached, begged again in the evenings, and rubbed the lama's feet, who rewarded him with promise of Freedom today, tomorrow, or, at furthest, the next day. 'Never was such a chela.
But it is impossible to imagine any human act more improbable than the unauthorized revelation by any such chela, to persons in the outer world, that he is one; and so the great esoteric school of philosophy guards its seclusion." QUESTION III: "Does the Yogi Philosophy teach that there is a place corresponding to the 'Heavens' of the various religions?
'I have found the Bull, but God knows what comes next. They will not hurt you. Come to the fat priest's tent with this thin man and see the end. It is all new, and they cannot talk Hindi. They are only uncurried donkeys. 'Then it is not well to make a jest of their ignorance, the lama returned. 'I am glad if thou art rejoiced, chela.
But those who follow the Way must permit not the fire of any desire or attachment, for that is all Illusion. As says ... He quoted an old, old Chinese text, backed it with another, and reinforced these with a third. 'I stepped aside from the Way, my chela. It was no fault of thine. I delighted in the sight of life, the new people upon the roads, and in thy joy at seeing these things.
The rest was as the darkness of interstellar space. 'These, he said slowly, 'are indeed my Hills. Thus should a man abide, perched above the world, separated from delights, considering vast matters. 'Yes; if he has a chela to prepare tea for him, and to fold a blanket for his head, and to chase out calving cows.
Being courteous folk, they had not obtruded themselves overnight by presence, word, or gesture. Wherefore Kim repaid them as the sun rose. 'Thank the Gods of the Jains, brother, he said, not knowing how those Gods were named. 'The fever is indeed broken. 'Look! See! The lama beamed in the background upon his hosts of three years. 'Was there ever such a chela? He follows our Lord the Healer.
'After a blow, said a Spiti man sententiously, 'it is best to sleep. 'There is, as it were, a dizziness at the back of my neck, and a pinching in it. Let me lay my head on thy lap, chela. I am an old man, but not free from passion ... We must think of the Cause of Things. 'Give him a blanket. We dare not light a fire lest the Sahibs see. 'Better get away to Shamlegh.
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