Traveller To An Undiscovered Bourne

"You are a miracle. You have being. Look all around you and everywhere you see unbeing... unaware. Houses, furniture, clothes, cars, trees, water.""The gnani experiences neither death nor birth. The body dies but your I is imperishable. Not even the body dies, because your body is a dream contrived by your brain.""I live in a daily awareness outside of time and space. We call that digambara, The One Stripped of All, who has gone beyond all forms known and seen.""Western materialism grips you in a vise. For your brain, a brick wall is hard and, in your downfall, a woman's flesh is soft. Your intricate technology enthrals and levitates you. You must go back to the West for a time, and face your downfall head-on."Halliday had been three months in India with a Guru. Not an ordinary Guru, teaching Yoga exercises, but a gnani Guru, who is wholly mental.The Guru sends him back to the West - Halliday is not ready. Western materialism swamps his brain.He flies back to Tenerife, and to three women who filled his life there. Sex crams his life again...But the words of his Guru come back to him, over and again, like a loop of audio tape in his mind, going round and round.Leaving the casual pleasures, hounded by the words of the Guru, he flies back to the far north coast of Scotland, and there struggles on his own uncharted way..."You have become one with your desires, and you are in their thrall.""And your desires, Maharaj?""They are like vessels fishing to the far horizon. No concern of mine. They can't reach me because they are at sea.