said Kim under his breath . ` Yea , my Soul went free , and , wheeling like an eagle , saw indeed that there was no Teshoo Lama nor any other soul . As a drop draws to water , so my Soul drew near to the Great Soul which is beyond all things . At that point , exalted in contemplation , I saw all Hind , from Ceylon in the sea to the Hills , and my own Painted Rocks at Such-zen ; I saw every camp and village , to the least , where we have ever rested . I saw them at one time and in one place ; for they were within the Soul . By this I knew the Soul had passed beyond the illusion of Time and Space and of Things . By this I knew that I was free . I saw thee lying in thy cot , and I saw thee falling downhill under the idolater -- at one time , in one place , in my Soul , which , as I say , had touched the Great Soul . Also I saw the stupid body of Teshoo Lama lying down , and the hakim from Dacca kneeled beside , shouting in its ear . Then my Soul was all alone , and I saw nothing , for I was all things , having reached the Great Soul . And I meditated a thousand thousand years , passionless , well aware of the Causes of all Things . Then a voice cried : `` What shall come to the boy if thou art dead ? '' and I was shaken back and forth in myself with pity for thee ; and I said : `` I will return to my chela , lest he miss the Way . '' Upon this my Soul , which is the Soul of Teshoo Lama , withdrew itself from the Great Soul with strivings and yearnings and retchings and agonies not to be told . As the egg from the fish , as the fish from the water , as the water from the cloud , as the cloud from the thick air , so put forth , so leaped out , so drew away , so fumed up the Soul of Teshoo Lama from the Great Soul . Then a voice cried : `` The River ! Take heed to the River ! '' and I looked down upon all the world , which was as I had seen it before -- one in time , one in place -- and I saw plainly the River of the Arrow at my feet . At that hour my Soul was hampered by some evil or other whereof I was not wholly cleansed , and it 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 XXXXX , but free from sin , and the hakim from Decca bore up my head in the waters of the River .
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