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The Throne of Emptiness

In a movement whose whole achievement was making religious speech plain enough for a washerman, he wrote riddles on purpose.

A tree without roots, he writes, bore a fruit without a seed. A man without a mouth ate it. There was no one to see it. Look, Guheshvara.

That is a vachana, and it is typical of him.

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