Tripura Rahasya

Hemalekha continued,

• This Mr. Motion, the friend of Mr. Inconstant, is most powerful and keeps them all alive. Though single, he multiplies himself, manifests as the city and citizens, pervades them all, protects and holds them.
• He is the bond between the inmates and myself; empowered by me, he serves in the city as the string in a necklace.
• If that city decays, he collects the inmates together, leads them to another and remains their master.
• In this way Mr. Inconstant rules over cities always, he himself remaining under the sway of his friend. Though supported by such a powerful friend, though born of such a virtuous mother and brought up by me, he is never otherwise than miserable, because he is tossed about by his two wives and several sons. He is torn asunder by his sons and finds not the least pleasure but only intense misery. Tempted by Madam Unsteady, he grieves; ordered about by Madam Vorax, he runs about in search of food for her; stricken by Flaming-mouth he burns with rage, loses his sense and is baffled; approaching Master Mean, he is openly despised and reviled by others and becomes as one dead under the shame of odium.
• Again and again my friend was stricken with grief on account of her son's calamities and nearly died with sorrow.
• I too, though sane and clear by nature, dear, got involved in the affairs of her family and became sad also.
• Engulfed in sorrow, my friend once sought me in private.
• Advised by me, she soon gained a good husband, killed her own son and imprisoned his sons.
• Then accompanied by me, she quickly gained my mother's presence, and being pure, she often embraced my mother.
• In the same manner, you too can conquer your wrong ways which are only accretions.
• Then, my Lord, attain the Mother and gain eternal happiness. I have now related to you my own experience of the pedestal of Bliss.


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Excerpts from Chapter 5, Tripura Rahasya