lay upon
my arms and coiled round my waist; but I put it aside, and I cast forth
as an eagle in my flight for the very place of the River. I pushed
aside world upon world for thy sake. I saw the River below me--the
River of the Arrow--and, descending, the waters of it closed over me;
and behold I was again in the body of Teshoo Lama, but free from sin,
and the hakim from Decca bore up my head in the waters of the River.
It is here! It is behind the mango-tope here--even here!'

'Allah kerim! Oh, well that the Babu was by! Wast thou very wet?'

'Why should I regard? I remember the hakim was concerned for the body
of Teshoo Lama. He haled it out of the holy water in his hands, and
there came afterwards thy horse-seller from the North with a cot and
men, and they put the body on the cot and bore it up to the Sahiba's
house.'

'What said the Sahiba?'

'I was meditating in that body, and did not hear. So thus the Search
is ended. For the merit that I have acquired, the River of the Arrow
is here. It broke forth at our feet, as I have said. I have found it.
Son of my Soul, I have wrenched my Soul back from the Threshold of
Freedom to free thee from all sin--as I am free, and sinless! Just is
the Wheel! Certain is our deliverance! Come!'

He crossed his hands on his lap and smiled, as a man may who has won
salvation for himself and his beloved.

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