Chapter Seventy-Six: Linga
Kolkata, India!
Wangji was still standing on the balcony, his eyes glancing at the castle William on the other side of Lake Hooghley, intentionally or unintentionally!
Anderson looked around, as if he wanted to go out and walk around casually, straightened his collar, kicked the leather shoes on his feet, and then, with a very decent step, began his parade meticulously!
Wangji thought it was funny, so he stared at him for a while, and whispered softly:
"He's a nice old man, but he's a little too old!"
He seemed to be talking to himself, and he seemed to be talking to the air, but the words did not have the feeling of ignorance in front of Li Ruochan and them.
Anderson looked around, and the little old man and the little old lady were sitting on a park bench looking at the clouds in the sky and whispering little whispers!
Suddenly, they saw Anderson looking around, and they all seemed to be taken aback, this white-skinned and white-haired old man seemed to be their new neighbor, and he seemed to be not bad, and his mental head was much better than the old man in his own family!
Thinking like this, the little old lady looked at him twice, and the little old man was talking to her! However, after waiting for a while and not responding, he turned his head and looked at his old woman's eyes, the old man was wearing a person who looked like a dog, and he looked like a dog!
Anderson seemed to have spotted the old man and lady looking at him, and he turned his head to show a smile that he thought was amiable, but his broad face and slightly muscular chest made him look more hooligan than gentlemanly, and such a smile seemed to be more flirtatious than kind.
The old lady turned her head a little shyly, it seems that since she married the dead old man next to her, she has rarely been noticed anymore, and she rarely pays attention to the people around her! Thinking like this, I couldn't help but look at this old man who I had seen all my life, although he was not as handsome as that person, but he was really good to himself, but his eyes still subconsciously drifted to the slightly strong white-haired old man's body, such an exotic style seems to be rare, look at it twice, just because of curiosity!
The old man looked at the old lady and hugged her into his arms, but his eyes couldn't help but drift to the old rascal's body, and the smug look on his face was like a demonstration of a male peacock opening the screen.
Anderson gave a thumbs up, which meant like a cynical rich man who saw a poor dick soaked in a girl he had never soaked before, and gave a thumbs up in admiration!
The old man's face was smug, but the old lady in his arms was pinching the soft flesh of his waist with a small handful, but the old man was also tough and kept smiling the whole time, so looking at Anderson's somewhat playful smile now, it was a bit meaningful!
Although the old lady made small movements, the person still leaned on the old man with a submissive face, and both of them looked at the stranger in a foreign land so intently, watching him wave goodbye to him!
Anderson walked on with his steps, but instead of a broad step, he seemed to become relaxed, and he walked forward with slow and graceful steps, his eyes looking around like an experienced old hunter!
He had walked out of Fort Wilhelm, and he was now strolling along the banks of the Hooghly River, a tributary of the Ganges, and he closed his eyes, sniffed, ran to the bank, leaned down, and then took a handful of water, looked at it, smelled it, and let it flow slowly through his fingertips!
He strolled leisurely and casually, stopping and staring for a moment whenever he came across a place that he felt was pleasing to the eye, but there didn't seem to be a so-called burning temple here!
He rolled out of the corner of his eye, and then suddenly froze, as if he had discovered something surprising.
Following his gaze, there was a shrine built on the corner of the street, and the shrine was smoky in front of it, and it looked like the incense was good, but what really stood out was not here, but what was enshrined there.
This shrine is neither dedicated to the Buddha nor the deity, he is actually enshrined in a Optimus Pillar!
Anderson thought it was very strange, since the shrine was not a statue, this was a bit unbelievable, just like in a Christian church, since it was not the great Jesus, this thing made people feel very grotesque, grotesque and a little difficult to accept!
He couldn't help but get closer, the shape of the shrine looked like a small Buddha house, but because the top was painted white with paint, it looked a bit like a Christian church, but it must not be the Buddha or Allah Jesus!
An old man seemed to see the foreigner, he looked at him, and then, handed him a stick of incense, Anderson said thank you in English, but he didn't expect that the man could also speak English, at least, he had been out for so long, it seemed that this was the first Indian he had heard who could speak English, and as for the others, they were all talking in Hindi that he didn't understand, which made him regret a little that he didn't bring a translator!
Anderson respectfully offered incense, and then sat casually on the bank of Lake Hooghly with the old man, and the two looked at the boat in the river, and talked like old friends for many years!
"Do you really know English?" Anderson still seems to be a little confused!
"Yes! I learned from my grandmother, when the British conquered India and turned it into an opium production factory, and my grandmother worked for the East India Company, and it was because of this that she learned English!
And my father is a drunkard, when he is drunk, he will go crazy at home, and most of his money is used to drink and drink, and he doesn't care whether I live or die at all, so I live with my grandmother most of the time, and I also learned a little English under her ears and eyes! The old man seemed to look down on these things, and when he spoke of them, his face was very calm, there was no resentment, and there was no hatred!
"Is that so? Then why is it that the shrine is not dedicated to idols, but ,..." Anderson suddenly froze, he couldn't seem to find a suitable word to describe what he saw!
The old man looked at the shrine and replied:
"That's Shiva! It has the dual character of reproduction and destruction, creation and destruction, presenting a variety of strange and grotesque different appearances, mainly including Linga phase, horror phase, gentle phase, superhuman phase, three-faced phase, dancing king phase, Liga lord phase, half-female lord and other disguises, and we worship the Linga phase of Shiva God! The old man said casually!
"Lingaxiang?" Anderson repeated the word with some confusion, as if thinking about what he meant!
"It is recorded in the Book of Puranas, that the boundless sky is Linga, and the earth is its pedestal. When the end comes, the universe and the gods will merge into the Linga. After the old man finished saying this sentence in English, he immediately recited it in Sanskritआकाशंलिंगमित्याहु:पृथ्वीतस्यपीऀठिका। आलय:सर्वदेवानांलयनार्लिंगमुच्यते。
Anderson suddenly felt that this kind of Sanskrit chanting was like a sacrificial word, perhaps, the old man couldn't feel it when he spoke English, but when the old man chanted in Sanskrit, the feeling of silence seemed to fill every inch of space around him!
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