The Amulet of Samarkand (2003)
“What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.”
[Swami Nikhilananda, Holy Mother, 121]
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