RISHYASHRINGA AND SHANTA
Graham Bond

This is the story of Rishyashringa, who encountered the urge to love, to experience bliss, to fully live–the urge behind all creation which moves the source of fullness to descend from abstract potential into manifestation…,

Far into the mountains, protected from the bustle of everyday life, lived the austere seer Vibhandaka. His discipline of mind and body (tapas) had given him access to the great powers that pulsate in the time before time, in the space of supreme awareness.
One day, as he bathed in a pool at the base of waterfall, he looked up into the vertigo of falling waters and in its mists and rainbows had a vision of a heavenly nymph (apsara) dancing seductively. Her sensual beauty permeated the churning waters, thrilling his body, and with a gasp he emitted his seed, which was carried on bubbles to settle at the side of the pool.

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