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Saints and Poets
For months he stopped being a Hindu - put the images away, faced Mecca, and would not look at the goddess he had spent his life in front of.
He did not believe that all religions lead to the same place. He decided to check.
For a stretch of months in the 1860s the priest of the Kali temple at Dakshineswar stopped being a Hindu. He put away the images. He dressed as a Muslim. He took the name of Allah on his tongue and kept it there. He turned toward Mecca at the appointed hours, and ate as a Muslim eats.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.