THE MAGICAL TREES IN SHIVA'S GARDEN
Sati loved to go out to the backyard garden and fruit fields, which sprang thousands of fragrant, vibrantly colourful flowers. There were Campaka, Kesaras, Punnagas, Ketaks, Mallika, Kurabakas and lots more.
There was also family of the magical Ajoosba trees. The Ajoosba tree had many different fruits on it: nectarine, plums, bananas, apples ,delightful red berries, citrus, and almost at its base, even musk-melon. It was said to have been manifested by very ancient yogis by their Imagination, many years ago. Austere as the yogis were, they needed something to eat, even if it was to merely survive, and the Ajoosba fruit was the culmination of mental seeds planted by them long ago.
Its perennial magnificence was all year round. Not only did Ajoosba bear a wonderous array of succulent fruit, but such was its magic, that it could change the taste of the same fruit to avoid banality. So the apples were sometimes mangoish in taste, and it was not uncommon for the bananas to have a delicate tinge of orange in them! Sati’s own favourite was a fruit called nectarine, which was half plum and the other half peach!
There was also family of the magical Ajoosba trees. The Ajoosba tree had many different fruits on it: nectarine, plums, bananas, apples ,delightful red berries, citrus, and almost at its base, even musk-melon. It was said to have been manifested by very ancient yogis by their Imagination, many years ago. Austere as the yogis were, they needed something to eat, even if it was to merely survive, and the Ajoosba fruit was the culmination of mental seeds planted by them long ago.
Its perennial magnificence was all year round. Not only did Ajoosba bear a wonderous array of succulent fruit, but such was its magic, that it could change the taste of the same fruit to avoid banality. So the apples were sometimes mangoish in taste, and it was not uncommon for the bananas to have a delicate tinge of orange in them! Sati’s own favourite was a fruit called nectarine, which was half plum and the other half peach!
( From the book SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller.)
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