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 Lama . He haled it out of the holy water in his hands , and there came afterwards thy horse-seller from the North with a cot and men , and they put the body on the cot and bore it up to the Sahiba 's house . ' ` What said the Sahiba ? ' ' I was meditating in that body , and did not hear . So thus the Search is ended . For the merit that I have acquired , the River of the Arrow is here .
It broke forth at our feet , as I have XXXXX .
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