Every night, at the end of the final meditation, he would keep reminding us of Krishna's lines from the Bhagavad Gita:

Jo hua, accha hua,
Jo ho raha hai, accha ho raha hai,
Jo hoga woh bhi accha hi hoga.

Clichéd as they may seem, in that vast, looming spectre of complete silence and emotional turmoil, they proved a life-saver.

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