India has great publishers and bookstores. Books are cheap and I’m always sending some home. Last week after a few months ten kilogram books arrived by sea mail. Currently reading the Sufi Message of Hazrat Iniyat Khan
“There is an ancient story in the East which tells that there was a wall of mystery. Whenever anyone tried to climb up the wall to look at the other side, instead of coming back he smiled and jumped over and never came back again. So the people of that country became very curious to know what mystery was behind that wall. Once when someone was climbing up the wall to see what was on the other side they put chains around his feet, and held him so that he would not go over. When he looked at the other side he too was delighted with what he saw and smiled; and those standing at the foot of the wall, curious to know what he had to say, pulled him back. But to their great dissapointment he had lost his speech.
The mystery of life has a great charm; every soul is curious about it; when one wants to explain the mystery of life, words are not adequate. There are many reasons for this speechlessness, for this silence. The first is that man who has seen what is on the other side of the wall finds himself among children when he returns. To him all the things to which people attach great importance and value seem worthless…”
From: The Mysticism of Music, Sound and Word
by Hazrat Iniyat Khan