Tales and Stories

Chapter 11 - Nature and Temptation

“Beautiful, Lou.” Baba Gene approved. “It’s so long since I immersed myself in the heat of the city that I had forgotten what works of maya, what spells of illusion, can come of its forges.
Some seekers choose like me to find God in quiet, far-off places in Nature, searching for answers in solitude and silence. But there are holy men who choose to embrace the confusion and chaos that comes with life amidst society, walking a precarious path across pits of vice and iniquity. Flirting with temptation and Desire but without ever being seduced.

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