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A pilgrim travels through sacred towns, groves, and shrines while pursuing spiritual understanding, meeting teachers, holy personages, and mythic figures who present parables and ethical tests. The journey interweaves episodes of intimate attachment, loss, and temptation with contemplative instruction drawn from Buddhist and Hindu lore, examining the tension between love and renunciation. Scenes alternate between lyrical landscape description, moral dilemma, and ritual, and the narrative moves toward a resolution that considers compassion, detachment, and the possibility of release from cyclic existence.
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