A KORA OF KORAS

Some Final Words
This has been a brief Kora of Koras, a consideration of some of the many
Koras of holy and sacred places all over the world. I originally wrote this as an
introduction for an Australian tour group that had come to Rewalsar and needed
some introduction to Tibetan Tantric Buddhism and the rest of our tour. It is
intended as an introduction to some of the universal principles of religion which
are often hidden in the millions of gods in India. It is a consideration of what we
are always circling.
It seems to me that we are all, already and always performing a primeval Kora,
the Kora of our sense of self; that is our highest building, our most sacred place.
However, in the highest teachings of Vedanta, our identification with ‘self ’ is the
denial of the Reality of ‘only God;’ and paradoxically, that ‘self ’ is the essential,
most necessary and most rarely performed of sacrifices.
Since this is only an introduction and not an in-depth consideration, I beg your
pardon and hope that the wheel of life turns well for you and everyone, but let us
remember that we are bound to a wheel that goes round in circles, what once was
up, inevitably will be down, what once was born will inevitably die, whatever we
once grasped, we must one day loose and what once was happy, will another day
taste of suffering, for this is the wheel of our lives.