The Book of Books — Rāmacaritamānasa of Tulsīdās: A Living Text for a World in Exile Two saints walked into the yoga hall one morning carrying something wrapped in red cloth. Rishi Yogadiwali Saraswatī and Rishi Nityabodhananda Saraswatī — teachers who do not travel lightly and do not give what is not needed. They set the bundle on the altar table, unwrapped it slowly, and revealed an edition of the Rāmacaritamānasa unlike any I had seen: large as a stone, heavy as a vow, its pages dense with miniature paintings so fine that you had to hold them at an angle to see the figures inside the gold. They said very little. The book had found its home. It sits…