THE BEGINNING OF THE JOURNEY A little boy sat on a rock that overlooked a verdant valley. The sun was rising. One side of the valley soaked up the sunlight as the darkness faded. The other side remained covered in the cold shadows of the approaching winter. The eight-year-old dark-skinned Read more…
OUR DIVINE PARENTS Under the stars of a moonless night, deep in the forest, Shishya, an eight-year-old dark-skinned boy, sat facing a small lake. Next to him sat his master. “Bapu,” the boy said, pulling his guru’s saffron-colored robe, now dark without color in the night. Bapu, the white-bearded old Read more…
A GRAIN OF SAND For six days, Shishya, an eight-year-old dark skinned boy, and his guru, Bapu, a white-bearded old man wearing a saffron robe, traveled through a barren land seeking for a place of rest. They reached a seaside village. At the marketplace, they found two men in ardent Read more…