After reading my last post, a friend and reader called me to enquire how I was faring. Just as during the times when I went through extreme pain in my lower back for some 2 1/2 years and the many instances where just like panic attacks the pain came on and where Agathiyar brushed it all aside telling me me that pain too was bliss, since a couple of days ago, there has been an underlying bliss felt underneath what Agathiyar calls an uncalled-for fear that arises from within and without. The fear left last night. I shall have to wait and see if it has left for good. The breath that was confined to the body is now merged in the Prapanjam. The three Dosas that troubled me, especially in the mornings and as I retire to bed have equalized, I suppose too. I guess it was a phase where I had to walk through the dark woods and eventually arrive in the open and under the bright sky.