Prologue
They say the monk went west to bring back the scriptures. Mira went west not to carry anything back, but to understand what others saw in what she was taught to reject.Mira is from the Southeast. A Muslim girl, raised to believe that idol worshippers were misguided at best, foolish at worst. But one day, on her way to work, she walked past a temple. Its main door was open, and something made her to stop and look in, instead of looking at the idols, she looked at the people. Doctors. Nurses. Lawyers. Educated, rational people bowing, praying, lighting incense.
And the question came: “What do they see that I don’t?”
That question began her journey.
Not toward belief.
Not toward religion.
But toward understanding.
This is her story, not of conversion, but of compassion. Not of surrender, but of seeing.
