High Worship

My friend Dr Asha, recently did a Kailas Manassarovar trip, about a month ago, and among many heavenly sightings, clicked this one, close to the Ashtapad mountain, where "eight steps" or Ashtapads, in the mountain lead to a holy place for the Jains. High up in the Himalayas, at elevations of more than 17,000 feet, breathlessness happens , particularly to folks , unfamiliar and unadjustable to such conditions.

And so I wondered about this "rabbit", which she clicked there....

(photo by Asha Shangarpawar)
Is that a midget bear,
an extra large mouse ?
And they said
it's an Ashtapad Rabbit
gamboling
possibly in slow motion
in the Himalayas.

And she wondered,
breathlessly,
if it was hypothyroid,
stung
with a metabolic syndrome,
mismatched
leptins and ghrelins
shooting lipids,
making it a great candidate
for bariatric surgery.

And it occurred to her,
still more breathlessly,
in
the rarefied Ashtapad
high up,
that ,
like the camel,
storing water
within,
for its life in the desert,
this
was a case
of air being stored inside
to help it gambol around,
doing a Pradakshina of Kailas.....