28 AUGUST 1993, Page 28

Truth Lives Within Your House

I chuckle to think that a fish immersed In water needs to slake its thirst.

Don't you see — your hearth is the house of God, Not the forests to whi,ch in vain you plod.

Truth lives within your house. Go to Mathura, Make your way to Benares or wherever; If you do not make your soul welcome, Then no place on earth can be your home.

James Harpur, after Kabir, Indian mystic, (c.1450- 1518)