Tigerlilly - Lobsang Rampa

CHAPTER EIGHT
Life is made up of sunshine and shadow and it would not be of
much help to anyone if all was gloom or ‘cloud nine’ ex-
periences, cloud nine being about the ultimate experience of
joy we could possibly feel while on earth. Someone has said,
‘If the sun should shine night and day, how soon the trees
would wither.’ I mention this to illustrate the ways of ordin-
ary living; although misunderstandings and minor disagree-
ments are most unpleasant there comes a wonderful feeling of
satisfaction when two people resolve their differences and
harmony is once more restored. It's something like when you
have to part from a cared-for person for a time—having been
away from each other, the eventual coming together again
reveals an extra glow which radiates new meaning.
I want to try and explain how the story of ‘Tiger Lily’ is
made up of a mixture such as I have just described, how all
was not perpetual sunshine and gladness. If I were to attempt
to convey such an expression it would not be fair nor would it
be correct, for we had our problems, great and small, just as is
experienced by all serious thinking persons.
Many people have felt interest or curiosity regarding my
life; thinking it must have been so different because of the
unusual circumstances, in that one person left this life and his
place was taken over by another. You who have followed the
teachings in Lobsang Rampa's books (Lobsang Rampa to
whom I owe a greater debt than I shall ever be able to repay in
countless lifetimes), you will know the broad outline of the
need for the necessary steps which had to be taken. Since his
description has been so comprehensive it needs no enlargement
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