I sat at the base of the bodhi tree meditating for seven days and seven nights.
On the seventh night when enlightenment eluded me once again, I turned to the
tree and begged for an explanation. The tree looked back at me and with a wooden
timbre replied: "At the expense of the world we inhabit, you have sought ascetic
nirvana. Only through giving the gift of inner peace may one achieve it." As the
great bodhi tree sank back into its ancient wooden slumber, I shouldered my
belongings and set back into a world I had once forsaken.
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Arya Kaul (C) now - forever