Tripura Rahasya

Hemalekha continued,

• Her son is the greatest of illusion - the mind; his wife is thought or conception or imagination; her sons are five in number - hearing, taste, sight, touch and smell, whose mansions are the respective senses. What the mind was said to steal from them is enjoyment of sensual objects, which leave an impress on the mind to develop later into proclivities of the mind. Sharing stolen objects with his wife is the manifestation of proclivities in dreams. Dream is the daughter-in-law of delusion (ignorance). Madam Vorax is desire; her sons are anger and greed; their city is the body. What was said to be my most potent talisman is realization of the Self. Mind's friend guarding the city is the vital principle which keeps moving as the life breath. The different cities peopled by them are hells passed in the eternal passage of the soul. The consummation of the discerning faculty is samadhi. My admission into my mother's chamber is final emancipation.
• Such is in brief the tale of my life. Yours is likewise. Think well and be absolved.

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Excerpts from Chapter 8, Tripura Rahasya