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“In quale corpo era incarnato ora suo marito? Se era rinato in forma umana, lo avrebbe riconosciuto qualora le fosse passato accanto per strada? Che cosa significava l'asserire, a proposito del sacramento del matrimonio, che sarebbero rimasti legati per sette vite? Per quanto ne sapeva lei, quell'ultimo matrimonio sarebbe potuto essere il settimo per lei. L'emozione la spingeva a un'interpretazione letterale; anelava a una rassicurazione tangibile. Il sanscrito tranquillizzate del volumetto verde rilegato in tela le passava tra le labbra, ma pur dandole la pace - quando recitava la Gita le salivano di rado le lacrime agli occhi - non rispondeva a nessuna delle sue domande. E mentre la saggezza antica si rivelava così spesso priva di consolazione, la fotografia, quella crudele arte moderna, contribuiva a impedire che anche l'immagine del viso di suo marito fosse sbiadita dal tempo.”

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“You grieve for those beyond grief, and you speak words of insight; but learned men do not grieve for the dead or the living. Never have I not existed nor you, nor these kings; and never in the future shall we cease to exist. Just as the embodied self enters childhood, youth, and old age, so does it enter another body; this does not confound a steadfast man. Contacts with matter make us feel heat and cold, pleasure and pain. Arjuna, you must learn to endure fleeting things-they come and go! When these cannot torment a man, when suffering and joy are equal for him and he has courage, he is fit for immortality. Nothing of nonbeing comes to be, nor does being cease to exist; the boundary between these two is seen by men who see reality. Indestructible is this presence that pervades all this; no one can destroy this unchanging reality. ...”

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“All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca.”

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