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…he, sitting at the mouth of his shrine, could not tell whether he were alive or dead; a man with control of his limbs, or a part of the hills, and the clouds, and the shifting rain, and sunlight. He would repeat a Name softly to himself a hundred hundred times, till, at each repetition, he seemed to move more and more out of his body, sweeping up to the doors of some tremendous discovery; but, just as the door was opening, his body would drag him back… |
This is from ‘The Miracle of Purun Baghat’ in ‘The Second Jungle Book’. Sir Purun Dass, who has been a high official with much power, has abandoned everything and become a wandering holy man. He has now settled in a shrine, high above a hill village, where he is seeking to think his way into the heart of things. |
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