AGHORA BOOK III: THE LAW OF KARMA by Svoboda Robert

Author:Svoboda, Robert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Namarupa LLC
Published: 2022-04-09T00:00:00+00:00

1 And deliberately worsened by Winston Churchill; for details see Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee.

CHAPTER SIX

THE CITY OF DELUSION

AS BOMBAY’S IMPORTANCE IN MY LIFE GREW I increasingly understood why Vimalananda had had to leave his life of many years as an itinerant sadhu and resettle in his hometown. Bombay was so crowded for him with tangled heaps of rnanubandhanas that nothing less than physical residence there would suffi ce for their unraveling. People daily arrived at his doorstep to confront him with shopping lists of cravings to be satisfied, but few of these solicitants showed any concern for him or his condition. Most were little more than embodied karmic debts who were striving to entrap him, and few of this group appreciated interference from his doorkeepers, Roshni and me. Fortunately, none of them possessed noteworthy power, so their curses could not fell us. Roshni’s strategies and protocols may have differed from mine but our ends were the same: to preserve as much as possible of Vimalananda’s energy from being suckled from him by these smarmy vampires and to keep conditions in the flat from going completely catawampus.

Vimalananda’s spiritual “children”, except for Parekh, usually came to glean wisdom from him by night. The day’s callers were of a more mundane genre: a continuous and occasionally entertaining parade of musicians, astrologers, doctors, lawyers, businessmen, politicians, impostors, vagabonds, wastrels and cranks, all seeking some species of profit. Many of them were experts in their fields, like Sayyid Sahib, an Arab who occasionally introduced Vimalananda to oil sheiks. When I first met Sayyid Sahib two enormous glass jars had just been delivered to Vimalananda’s residence. Sayyid Sahib spent most of his hour there eyeing the jars as if trying to figure out how much he could make by selling them. When he finally left I asked Vimalananda who he was.

“Sayyid Sahib? Oh my, as a con man he’s tops! You’ve heard of people in California and Florida back in the ’30s selling people a tract of scrub forest and calling it an orange grove? People talk about such things, but Sayyid Sahib has actually done it, right here in India. He actually painted lemons on the trees in order to do it!

“His most successful swindle was the way he separated the Saudis from their jewelry. Some members of the Saudi royal family wanted to quietly dispose of some family treasure; Sayyid Sahib assured them that he could easily handle the transaction in Bombay, no questions asked.

“The Saudis flew into India in their private plane and landed at a small airstrip south of Bombay. Sayyid Sahib had arranged everything; all they had to do was hand over the gems and take the cash and off they would fly again. Now here they were on the runway, the Saudis with their jewel cases and Sayyid Sahib with a suitcase full of money, which he opened to show them that there was no hanky-panky going on.

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