your bridge home
The Great Arguments
He climbed to the top of the temple tower and shouted the mantra to the street, then told the teacher who came to stop him that the arithmetic was obvious.
Ramanuja walked to Tirukoshtiyur eighteen times before the old man would tell him.
The thing being withheld was the Ashtakshara, the eight-syllable mantra of Narayana.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.