In due time I take service under the Government as a scribe -- ' ` Not as a warrior . That is well . ' ` But first I come to wander with thee . Therefore I am here . Who begs for thee , these days ? ' he went on quickly . The ice was thin . ` Very often I beg myself ; but , as thou knowest , I am seldom here , except when I come to look again at my disciple . From one end to another of Hind have I travelled afoot and in the te-rain . A great and a wonderful land ! But here , when I put in , is as though I were in my own Bhotiyal . ' He looked round the little clean cell complacently . A low cushion gave him a seat , on which he had disposed himself in the cross-legged attitude of the Bodhisat emerging from meditation ; a black teak-wood table , not twenty inches high , set with copper tea-cups , was before him . In one corner stood a tiny altar , also of heavily carved teak , bearing a copper-gilt image of the seated Buddha and fronted by a lamp , an incense-holder , and a pair of copper flower-pots . ` The Keeper of the Images in the Wonder House acquired merit by giving me these a year since , ' he said , following Kim 's eye . ` When one is far from one 's own land such things carry remembrance ; and we must reverence the Lord for that He showed the Way . See ! ' He pointed to a curiously-built mound of coloured rice crowned with a fantastic metal ornament . ` When I was Abbot in my own place -- before I came to better knowledge I made that offering daily . It is the Sacrifice of the Universe to the Lord .
Thus do we of Bhotiyal offer all the world XXXXX to the Excellent Law .
Abbot Bhotiyal Buddha Kim daily first flower-pots incense-holder te-rain year