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Saints and Poets
Shiva took Parvati out to sea so nobody would overhear the real teaching. Parvati fell asleep. A fish under the boat did not.
Shiva took Parvati out to sea to tell her something he did not want overheard.
That is the premise, and the whole Nath tradition hangs off it. The teaching was the real one. The practical one. The method by which a body could be turned into something that does not die.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.