My grown daughter, Holly, and I were talking about the book Be Here Now which was written and first published in northern New Mexico. When it was new, copies were $3.33, to be symbolic. The author is Ram Dass (né Richard Alpert), and it was first published in 1971.
Holly had came home from a discussion of spirituality and yoga, and someone had told a story from that book. I said I have often had the book, but I keep giving them away, and I was without one. I ordered one for her right then. She told me the story.
A few days later the book arrived, and she opened it right to this page—the story she had been told and had come home to tell me.
There’s a sikh story about a holy man who gave two men each a chicken and said: "Go kill them where no one can see."
One guy went behind the fence and killed the chicken.
The other guy walked around for two days and came back with the chicken.
The holy man said: "You didn’t kill the chicken?"
The guy said: "Well, everywhere I go, the chicken sees."
It's not as pretty as the book itself, but the text and images can be read freely here:
(You can read it without downloading it; the larger the screen the better, for that.)
That file has been improved since I first linked the site, so here's what I saw there in October 2025:
