Mataji

"Beware of wild monkeys," I was warned. Somehow, I had foolishly relegated those words of advice to a minor side-note on the typewritten priority list I prepared for my journey to India. Now that self-admonition reverberates of life and death proportions to me, as I stand frozen in my tracks staring down the colossal-sized monkey about to pounce on me from the roof of my ashram cell.