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The Call of Arunachala

by Saniel Bonder

(from The Mountain Path , July 1975)

The call of Arunachala

is no call of destiny;

it is the silent beckoning

of destiny's End.

There is nothing to be found

beyond its rugged slopes,

nothing to be sought.

After one arrives

at Arunachala,

destiny goes begging

in the streets, wearing

the torn and fading orange

rags of clouds whose sun

has set. After one arrives

at Arunachala,

never again to depart,

destiny lies down

to die, its face as

gaunt, its eyes as bleak

as those of the moon

at dawn. Like a

wrongly summoned genie

whose master has escaped,

it has nothing to do,

nowhere to go, no one

to turn or to turn to.

Its power is unavailing.

Its spell is shattered.

Scavenge as it will,

there is no one left

to prey on ; death will

be its last and bitter

morsel. Thus it is

no wonder that destiny

quivers in fright at

the gate of the Heart

when first one hears

the call of Arunachala.

What jailer would

respond differently,

having found the

Invincible One

Himself within

the walls? Even his keys

are now useless. The Liberator

is indeed the prisoner himself,

unmasked. For Arunachala

is everywhere present; It

beckons only to Itself.

Phantoms like destiny beat

wings of mist in vain

upon Its rocks ; for

the call of Arunachala

is the call of destiny's End.

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