The tawny eyes glowed in the dark. Nothing moved! But the leaves on the huge, old, old trees yielded to the teasing breeze as they shimmied and sashayed just to appease it. The darkness reflected the world around.The smouldering eyes alighted on the distant body, still and unmoving. As it adjusted his gaze, he evaluated the worth, he decided to go for it, after all something was better than nothing! He had not had anything for many days.
Crouching low, freezing between steps, stealthily it approached its target. Making sure there were no witnesses. Ha! Ha! He forgot the trees! The huge trees, timeless in age, we’re talking to each other, whispering softly as they watched him boldly move forward again.
The night sky suddenly transformed with the appearance of the creamy yellow moon, hanging in the sky like a huge ‘Rosogolla’. So huge, so near, you could just reach out and pluck it. The moonlight shone bright on the dark world below casting its magical spell as it transformed the entire landscape … silver trees, silver leaves, silver grass and silver streams. The rocks and boulders sparked silver too.
The darkness, the gloom magically lifted. He now felt trapped. Would he be seen? His protection, his solace, the dark night had vanished. Leaving him exposed. He froze mid-step, eyes blazing, his face a fearsome mask, yet commanding reverence. He looked straight ahead at his prey! And he was baffled. He too had turned silver! Before his very eyes he watched the transformation!
It was a man, sitting immobile under a huge Peepal tree. He looked like an ascetic. And light seemed to emanate from him. There was a halo around his head, soft and golden, his eyes were closed as if in deep contemplation, but his lips were smiling as such peace radiated that even he, a hungry tiger felt drenched in that peace, becoming content. He knew instinctively that this was his ‘master’. He crouched forward, bent his head near the seated source of sublime love as no more were there any illusions.
As for the man glowing with inner light of self realization, he was lost to this world as he glimpsed the ‘Truth’ and was rid of worldly illusions forever!
