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Here’s an excerpt from Chapter 7:
Uncle began by speaking of the roots of their community. So much had been lost in the mists of time, he said, that it was impossible to pinpoint their exact origins. What he’d discovered via his own eccentric methods of research was that thousands of years ago the Saraswat Brahmins had settled in the fabled Indus Valley. Some held the view that they had migrated from the steppes of Europe and were a branch of the original Aryans, but Uncle said these theories were hard to corroborate. In any event, the Saraswat Brahmins had later been driven south by some great calamity, and many had settled in the rich coastal state of Goa. Centuries later, the lucrative Indian spice trade—controlled by Arab merchants who operated in Goa and thereabouts—had attracted the attention of the Portuguese. It was these avaricious foreigners who’d grabbed Goa out of Muslim hands and unleashed a long reign of terror.
Portuguese rule began in the sixteenth and ended in the twentieth century; during this time, Uncle said, their priests, backed by their monarch, employed brutal methods to stamp out local religions and culture. In 1546 Francis Xavier, a Basque Roman Catholic missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus, wrote to the Portuguese King, urging him to dispatch the Inquisition to Goa. Xavier’s efforts bore fruit only after his death in 1552, so the pious creep wasn’t around to witness the horrors he’d unleashed on poor Goa; however historians offered proof that Xavier was well aware of the ugly nature of the beast he was inviting into that rich region. “Beyond atrocious, eh?” Uncle said. “Evil in the name of God! Can you believe the Vatican later canonized that rogue? Actually made him patron saint of all Catholic missionaries!” Lila had looked up at him with a frown, and Uncle added, as if reading her mind, that religious zealots are a far cry from genuine spiritual seekers, who recognize the same essence in all beings and therefore cannot do such evil.
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Greetings from Arunachala, Shiva in the form of a hill, who challenges us to fight our own darkness so we can realize our awesome divine potential! 
