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 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 XXXXX .
Arrow Dacca Lama River Wast hour kerim mango-tope retchings years