About Moksha Medicine

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 Will is trying to persuade Murugan to bring catalogs from the outside world and distribute them for free to the people. He thinks that it could make them enthusiastic about buying properties. They'll start to want more developments. Yet Murugan does not think so. Because of the yoga of love, nothing is similar to the outside world. 

 "No progress, only sex! And of course that beastly dope they're all given." says Murugan. "Scientifically cultivated dope."

  Will is very surprised to hear that the people use drugs here. But Dr. Macphail believes that Murugan calls them as dope, because he grew up in Europe. In Pala, they call them with nice words: The moksha-medicine, the reality revealer, the truth-and beauty pill.

What Murugan thinks about the moksha-medicine


  Murugan has never tried this pills before and he has no intention of triying them. "All it gives you is a lot of illusions," he says. "Why should I go out of my way to be made a fool of?"

  Dr. Macphail tries to convince Murugan to try the pills at least for one time. Murugan is stubborn, he believes what his mother believes.  "Yesterday my wife asked me if we could take the moksha-medicinc together. We'd taken it together once or twice each year for the last thirty-seven years—ever since we decided to get married. And now once more—for the last time. There was a risk involved, because of the damage to the liver. But we decided it was a risk worth taking. And as it turned out, we were right. But if you'd experienced what Lakshmi and I went through yesterday you'd know better. You'dknow it was much more real than what you call reality." He is insistent. 



 Dr. Macphail has some hard opinions about Murugan's childhood. "He's had miseducation in Europe—Swiss governesses, English tutors, American movies, everybody's advertisements—and he's had reality eclipsed for him by his mother's brand of spirituality."

  After this conversation, Will is eager to try the pills. 




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