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'But I see now that he was but sent for a purpose. By this I know that I shall find a certain River for which I seek. 'The River of the Arrow? said Kim, with a superior smile. 'Is this yet another Sending? cried the lama. 'To none have I spoken of my search, save to the Priest of the Images. Who art thou? 'Thy chela, said Kim simply, sitting on his heels.
The lama blinked he could not overtake the situation and Kim lifted up his voice and wept outside the carriage window. 'I am very poor. My father is dead my mother is dead. O charitable ones, if I am left here, who shall tend that old man? 'What what is this? the lama repeated. 'He must go to Benares. He must come with me. He is my chela. If there is money to be paid
She is at least a woman of open hands, and I made a promise to return to her house if need arose. Then, perceiving myself alone in this great and terrible world, I bethought me of the te-rain to Benares, where I knew one abode in the Tirthankars' Temple who was a Seeker, even as I. 'Ah! Thy River, said Kim. 'I had forgotten the River. 'So soon, my chela? I have never forgotten it.
See also Lubbock in 'Transactions, Entomological Society, vol. iv. new series, 1856-1858, p. 8. In another family the inferior or posterior antennae are "curiously zigzagged" in the males alone. N.B. The artist by mistake has reversed the drawing, and made the left-hand chela the largest. C. Spence Bate, is five times as great as that of the female.
About the time the people of the country are breakfasting in the morning the chela starts out with the brass bowl and begs from house to house until the bowl is filled with food, when he returns to wherever his master is waiting for him and they share its contents between them.
Then my Soul was all alone, and I saw nothing, for I was all things, having reached the Great Soul. And I meditated a thousand thousand years, passionless, well aware of the Causes of all Things. Then a voice cried: "What shall come to the boy if thou art dead?" and I was shaken back and forth in myself with pity for thee; and I said: "I will return to my chela, lest he miss the Way."
'So be it; but what dost thou do now? 'I acquire merit in that I help thee, my chela, to wisdom. The priest of that body of men who serve the Red Bull wrote me that all should be as I desired for thee. I sent the money to suffice for one year, and then I came, as thou seest me, to watch for thee going up into the Gates of Learning.
Of course it was rather a shock to my spiritual pride, that I, a mahatma of eminence myself, should be told that I was to be adopted as a mere chela by these ladies; but I remembered those beautiful lines of Buddha's I quote from memory and I hesitated no longer: "To be long-suffering and meek, To associate with the tranquil, Religious talk at due seasons; This is the greatest blessing."
Receive him in your midst as the chela of a new avatar which will be unfolded to him under your tender guidance. Take him in your arms, O my sisters, and comfort him with the doctrines of Ila, the Divine, the Beautiful." Taking me in their arms, I now found, was a mere formula or figure of speech, and consisted only in throwing garlands over me.
Consider, brat, that I am an old woman and not altogether a fool. Lamas I know, and to these I give reverence, but thou art no more a lawful chela than this my finger is the pole of this wagon. Thou art a casteless Hindu a bold and unblushing beggar, attached, belike, to the Holy One for the sake of gain. 'Do we not all work for gain? Kim changed his tone promptly to match that altered voice.
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