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From To Live Within, in which the author describes her studies with the Hindu spiritual teacher Shri Anirvan. Here she talks about helping set up his ashram or spiritual school in the Himalayas.
If we were to take Hinduism as a whole — its vast literature, its complicated rituals, its sprawling folkways, its opulent art — and compress it into a single affirmation, we would find it saying: You can have what you want.
Twain's tales of his encounter with India and Hinduism are typical of the famous essayist—witty, sagacious, exaggerated and cynical. Yet few people know he ever went to Dharma's homeland or wrote so extensively about what he saw there.