East 5

Larchfire: Photography from India, Nepal and Tibet, plus quotations primarily from traditions in Yoga and Buddhism

The role of the monk is to bring all things back from time to eternity, from the state of becoming to Being, from outwardness to what is Within. He is the high priest of solitude and also the high priest of the crowd, who frees the latter from the loneliness which it bears at his heart. He is at once present to all and bound by none. —Abhishiktananda, <i> The Mountain of the Lord: Pilgrimage to Gangotri </i>
<i> L1358 Benares </i>

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The role of the monk is to bring all things back from time to eternity, from the state of becoming to Being, from outwardness to what is Within. He is the high priest of solitude and also the high priest of the crowd, who frees the latter from the loneliness which it bears at his heart. He is at once present to all and bound by none. —Abhishiktananda, The Mountain of the Lord: Pilgrimage to Gangotri L1358 Benares

Benares pandit Ganges Abhishiktananda