Baba Knows Best
Yesterday, on FB, I put up gentle quote I’d heard somewhere - “We’re all just walking each other home”. It seems a nice way to capture the essence of the human experience. I was instantly informed the line came from one Baba Ram Dass, who, I concluded, must be a mystic philosopher, probably Indian. In my mind, I saw a beloved guru in flowing robes, a flowered lay, beads, long grey beard, surrounded by worshipful acolytes somewhere in, say, Uttar Pradesh. Obviously, he was a holy man of great renown in the Subcontinent and beyond. Turns out, I got a lot wrong about him, apart from the beard - and even that wasn’t a constant.