Tale 61 · The Vāsiṣṭha Atlas
Nirvāṇa · second half · Mitra VI.2.180–186 · 14,776 words
Eight brothers each ruled the whole earth inside his own house.
Kundadanta, a Brahmin of Videha who now sits beside Rāma, once served an ascetic who hung head-down from a banyan bough to win rule over the seven continents, and the Sun granted it. On their way home the ascetic led him to Gaurī's grove. They found only desert, and an old hermit, once king of Malwa, sitting under an ever-young kadamba tree, so deep in meditation that the forest had been cut down around him. Shouted awake, he did not know where he was or what time it was. He closed his eyes again and saw everything. The ascetic and his seven brothers had all won the same boon. Their wives had won another, that their husbands' souls would never leave their houses. And Durvāsas had cursed the family. After death, the personified Blessing and Curse plead before Brahmā, and the blessing wins because it came first and was more deeply fostered. So each brother rules the whole earth inside his own house, unaware of the others. Kundadanta, left bereaved, finds rest only in Vasiṣṭha's teaching.
A wish fulfilled is still a picture in a small room. Each brother 'thought himself to be the Lord of his respective province, as his imagination portrayed unto him in the region of his mind' (VI.2.183.67).
When suggestions compete, the one that came first and is 'deeply rooted and duly fostered in one's self' prevails (VI.2.183.32–35). A blessing given by another works only when it is cultivated.
Opposing suggestions of equal force produce a divided self, mixed 'as the commingling of milk with water' (VI.2.183.37–38).
Deep absorption can leave the meditator out of step with the world. Shouted awake, the hermit asked 'what means this change and what time is this' (VI.2.181.25), which is why emergence needs orientation.
Grief cannot be solved by wishing. The wives' boon kept their husbands' ghosts at home (182.37–39), but Kundadanta's own loss found rest only in understanding (185.6–14; 185.21–22).
The Vāsiṣṭha Atlas
Eight brothers win the whole earth and each rules it 'as his imagination portrayed unto him' inside his own house, unaware of the others (VI.2.183.67), while their wives' boon keeps their ghosts at home after death. This is Denial as wish-fulfilment over loss, with Separation beneath it in Kundadanta's bereavement. Ease is the rest Kundadanta finds in understanding rather than wishing (VI.2.185.21–22). The tale dramatises Recognising the Shadow's Cost: a sovereignty sized to an empty room (VI.2.185.26).
Blessing and curse of equal force mix 'as the commingling of milk with water' into a divided mind (VI.2.183.38), and the tale shows coherence returning when the more deeply fostered state prevails.
Yoga nidrā plants a saṅkalpa at the threshold of sleep, where a resolve sinks deepest and works over time. The blessing that prevails because it came first and was 'duly fostered in one's self' (VI.2.183.32–35) is the logic of that resolve.
Patañjali says that from contentment comes unsurpassed happiness. The brothers who hung head-down for seven continents end with a picture in a room, while the old hermit, who laid down a kingdom, sits content under his kadamba tree.
The Gītā's image of the ocean that rivers fill without disturbing names the peace of one who is not a desirer of desires. Kundadanta, who finds rest only in Vasiṣṭha's teaching, moves from the brothers' wishing towards that ocean.
IEAF: Integrative Emotional Alchemy Framework (Gallardo, Frontiers in Psychology, 2026). FP20: the Fundamental Peace Scale. ITM: the Integrative Transformation Model. Parallels in other yogas are contemplative correspondences, not claims of influence.
Rāma told the assembly of a Brahmin from Videha who had once come to him, worn out by a long journey, and the Brahmin, Kundadanta, told his own story. He had given up worldly life and travelled among hermitages. In a desert he came on a single tree. From one of its boughs a holy man hung by his feet, tied with munja grass, his head toward the ground and his palms joined on his breast. He was alive: he breathed and felt heat and cold. Kundadanta served him through sun and seasons until the hanging man trusted him. He was born in Mathurā, he said, and had come to believe that princes alone enjoy life; so he was mortifying himself until he became lord of the seven continents. Kundadanta stayed six months, as still as a block of wood. Then a being blazing like the sun descended and granted the boon: the ascetic would rule the seven seas and continents with his present body for seven thousand years. Kundadanta untied him, and they set off for Mathurā.
On the way the ascetic turned aside. He wanted to visit Gaurī's sanctuary, where his seven brothers had gone to do austerities, for there were eight of them. They found no grove, no sages, no altar, only a blank desert. At last they saw a shady arbour and an aged hermit sitting in meditation beneath a young kadamba tree. They waited a long time, and finally Kundadanta shouted. 'My loud cry awakened the muni from the trance of his reverie,' and the hermit asked: who are you, where has Gaurī's sanctuary gone, who brought me here, 'what means this change and what time is this'? Then he went back into meditation, saw all that had happened to himself and to them, and explained. The goddess Gaurī had lived ten years on this kadamba tree, and her grove had flowered around it. When she left, woodcutters felled the forest but spared the tree, and spared the hermit, whom they took to be absorbed for ever. He himself was the former king of Malwa.
All eight brothers, the hermit said, had won the same boon, each to be sole lord of the seven continents. Meanwhile their grieving wives had performed vows to Gaurī. One of them, Chirantikā, asked that her husband be made immortal. Told that this was impossible, she asked instead that his soul never leave the house when he died, and the goddess granted it. But the brothers' parents, while searching for their sons, failed to honour the sage Durvāsas, and he cursed them: the boons would turn into their opposites.
The hermit foretold what would follow. The brothers would die. Their souls would hang in the air as if asleep, and before them the Blessing and the Curse would take bodily form and quarrel. The Curse was dark and three-eyed with lance and mace; the Blessing was four-armed and bright as the moon. They took their case to Brahmā, who said the one with more intrinsic substance should prevail. Each entered the other's heart to sound it, and the Curse conceded. A blessing, he admitted, grows strong when it is 'deeply rooted and duly fostered in one's self', and the earlier one takes precedence. Then Gaurī's boon asked how souls bound to their houses could rule the whole earth. Brahmā answered that the mind, minuter than an atom, can hold the whole world as it holds a dream. So each brother's ghost sits in his own house as lord of the seven continents, sacrificing, warring and loving. Each is friendly with the others, and none knows of their realms.
The hermit closed his eyes and would not speak again. Kundadanta went home and lived happily while the brothers lived. Then they died one by one, and at last his only friend died too. Alone and grieving, he went back to the kadamba tree and waited three months. The hermit sent him to Ayodhyā to hear Vasiṣṭha. Now, asked what he has learned, Kundadanta says his doubts are gone. He has seen that a little room can hold the seven continents, and that the mind can hold the world.
Passages from Mitra’s translation (1891–99), cited by book, chapter and verse.
“On my saying so, the meek minded devotee, remained as cool and quiet as a block of stone, and with his closed eye lids, he persisted in his dormancy as a dead body, without any motion in his outer limbs.”“My loud cry awakened the _muni_ from the trance of his reverie, as the roaring of a raining cloud wakens the sleeping lion, rising straight with his yawning mouth (and stretched out limbs).”“He then said unto us, who are ye pious persons, that are in this desert; say where is that sanctuary of Gaurí gone, and who is it that has brought me hither. Tell me what means this change and what time is this.”“The blessing received from its donor, is strengthened in the mind of the donee in time; and this acting forcibly within one’s self, overcomes at last the power or effect of the curse.”“The equal force of the blessing and curse, must produce a double or divided effect on the mind of man; as a person dreaming of the fairy city in his sleep, thinks himself as turned to one of its citizens (without losing the idea of his own personality: so a man has a different idea of himself, in different states of his life).”“Their souls will remain at proper distances from each other, after the loss and extinction of their frail bodies; and will deem themselves as lords of the seven regions of earth, though dwelling in the empty air of their own abodes.”“Thus every one of these brothers, thought himself to be the Lord of his respective province, as his imagination portrayed unto him in the region of his mind.”“It is possible also for a little room, to contain the seven continents of the earth (in its map or picture); though the room itself is no more than a mere empty space.”In the textThe hanging ascetic 'persisted in his dormancy as a dead body, without any motion in his outer limbs'. The kadamba hermit has 'remained as motionless as a stone' (182.17), and at the end he becomes 'as motionless as a statue or picture, without any action of his breath and mind' (185.1).
In the clinicDeep-trance catalepsy and marked stillness of respiration, the body held without effort in one posture for long periods.
In the textKundadanta's 'loud cry awakened the muni from the trance of his reverie'. The hermit is disoriented ('what means this change and what time is this'), re-enters meditation, and only then comes 'to himself from his abstraction'.
In the clinicAbrupt dehypnotization produces disorientation and time loss. Good practice re-orients to time and place and allows a re-entry and controlled return when emergence has been startled.
In the text'The holy man betook himself to his meditation again, and there saw all the events that had occurred to himself and us also.' Mitra's chapter title for 185 speaks of Kundadanta's 'Clairvoyance'.
In the clinicTrance-assisted retrieval (hypermnesia). The text presents it as complete and reliable, but in clinical practice hypnotic recall mixes accurate memory with confident pseudo-memory (Laurence & Perry 1983).
In the textThe Blessing and the Curse take bodily form, argue their precedence, go before Brahmā, and 'entered into the heart of one another, in order to sound their understandings'. The Curse then concedes.
In the clinicEgo-state therapy (Watkins & Watkins): conflicting parts are personified, given voice, brought before an inner arbiter, and made to understand each other before resolution. The dreamer who 'thinks himself as turned to one of its citizens (without losing the idea of his own personality)' (183.38) also recalls Hilgard's hidden observer (1977).
In the textThe boon is a received suggestion that 'is strengthened in the mind of the donee in time'. It becomes effective 'only, when it is deeply rooted and duly fostered in one's self', and the prior one prevails 'though it be that of a minute only'.
In the clinicDirect suggestion depends on acceptance and rehearsal, as in reinforcing suggestions through self-hypnosis practice. The text also states a primacy rule for competing suggestions.
In the textThe brothers' ghosts 'deem themselves as lords of the seven regions of earth, though dwelling in the empty air of their own abodes'. Each is seen ruling Ujjain, Scythia, Kuśadvīpa and other lands, 'unacquainted with the respective provinces of one another'.
In the clinicPositive hallucination of an entire world, with a negative hallucination for the co-present others, as in somnambulistic subjects who see a suggested scene in a shared room.
In the textThe love-lorn wives, 'disconsolate at their separation', ask first that their husbands be made immortal, then that a husband's 'parted soul may never depart from this place'. Later Kundadanta, bereft of brothers and friend, goes to the hermit 'to dissipate my dolor' (185.6–7).
In the clinicAnticipatory grief and the wish for continuing bonds (Klass, Silverman & Nickman 1996): the dead are kept present at home. The tale moves from bargaining toward understanding.
In the textRāma asks Vasiṣṭha to question Kundadanta 'whether his doubts are wholly dissipated or not'. Kundadanta states what he has realised: the world contained in the mind, a room containing the seven continents.
In the clinicRatification: the change is tested and confirmed aloud before a witness, which stabilises the insight.
Read upward — stage 1 at the bottom, stage 7 at the top
Integration zone
Pure-awareness trance and silent presence — not another state to enter but the ground recognised in every state. Jīvanmukti; Fundamental Peace.
Integration zone
Perceptual shift — the boundaries of things soften; consciousness expands past its usual partitions.
Integration zone
Post-trance integration — sustained non-reactivity carried into behaviour; what was seen in depth becomes how one lives.
Integration zone
Hypnotic absorption meets direct knowing — identity deconstruction at full depth. This is YVH's primary therapeutic zone, and the model's central testable hypothesis.
Integration zone
Progressive relaxation and deepening — the habitual self loosens enough for new pattern to take.
Integration zone
Self-inquiry joined to guided suggestion — narrative reframing and Socratic dialogue inside a gently focused state.
Integration zone
Therapeutic motivation — disillusionment with suffering becomes readiness for change. The first honest wish to be free is itself the induction.
A note on what this map claims. The alignment between stages of knowledge and trance depths is a clinical map — a heuristic correspondence proposed for research, not a claim of identity between contemplative attainment and hypnotic depth.
Bhūmikā 5 · Asaṃsakti
The kadamba hermit is unmoved while ages pass and the forest is felled around him (VI.2.182.17–19). Kundadanta ends 'perfect master of myself, by my victory over all selfish passions' (185.21). That is asaṃsakti, non-clinging, in contrast to the brothers who cling to sovereignty even after death.
Zone · Somnambulistic
The phenomena are positive hallucinations of whole kingdoms lived as real (VI.2.183.47–67), spontaneous disorientation for elapsed time on emergence (181.25), and prolonged catalepsy. These are hallmarks of somnambulistic depth, more than medium trance.
In Calcutta in the 1890s, the translator chose the vocabulary of hypnotism to name these states. More →
My loud cry awakened the _muni_ from the trance of his reverie, as the roaring of a raining cloud wakens the sleeping lion, rising straight with his yawning mouth (and stretched out limbs).VI.2.181.24He remained a moment in deep thought, and then coming to himself from his abstraction, he said unto us, learn now about this marvelous event, and know it to be a delusion only by your good common sense.VI.2.181.28As we seem to enjoy our ecstasy, in the fairy land of our fancy; so we are betaken by the delusion of this unreal world, under the belief of its reality.VI.2.184.33Now rise ye Bráhmans and repair to your abodes, as the bees resort to their cells and calyxes of lotuses at the dusk of the day; go and perform your evening services, while I remain here in my pensive meditation, and absorbed in my spiritual ecstasy forever.VI.2.184.48ADMONITION TO AND CLAIRVOYANCE OF KUNDA-DANTA.VI.2.185 (chapter title)And we prayed him with great fondness and endearment, yet he uttered not a word unto us; because he seemed to be so rapt in his abstraction, as to have become utterly insensible of the outer world.VI.2.185.2After passing from these, and knowing the unreality of both these imaginative and speculative states, the soul falls into its state of profound sleep or trance, which is believed as the state of liberation by those that are desirous of their emancipation.VI.2.186.29Indications. Clients fixated on a single achievement, the if only I ruled the seven continents of a career or a relationship. Inner conflict between a blessing voice and a cursing voice: parts negotiation before an arbiter. Reinforcement: the boon must be fostered daily to prevail. Anticipatory grief and bereavement, including the wish to keep the dead at home. Teaching safe emergence: what happens when trance ends abruptly.
As protocol. The Blessing and Curse sequence (183.11–40) is a ready-made parts protocol: personify, let them argue, take them to a wise arbiter, let each enter the other's heart, establish which came first and which has been fostered, and let the stronger one be cultivated.
Cautions. The image of ghosts that never leave the house may feed complicated grief or magical thinking in the newly bereaved; use it to name the wish, not to endorse it. Screen for prolonged grief before using the tale with recent loss. Trance "seeing" of past events (181.27) must not be presented as reliable memory. Durvāsas's curse can frighten clients with persecutory beliefs; screen for psychosis. Extreme austerities, hanging head-down, are not a model for practice.
Practise with a qualified professional if you have a history of dissociation, trauma or psychosis.
Blessing and Curse Before Brahmā
Read slowly, aloud; about fifteen minutes.
Before you begin. This practice gives shape to two inner voices. Do not use it alone if you have a dissociative disorder, hear voices, or have a psychotic illness; work with a clinician. If one voice becomes overwhelming, open your eyes and use the return below. Sit upright in a safe place; never practise while driving.
How to return at any moment. Say the date aloud, press your feet into the floor, count from one to five and open your eyes.
Sit, and let the body become still, like the hermit under his tree. Let the breath slow.
Bring to mind a wish you have pursued with great effort. See it granted, as the boon was granted: the thing itself, here.
Now notice two voices about this wish. One blesses it. One curses it. Let each take a shape. Perhaps one is bright, the other dark. Let them stand a little apart.
Let them speak. Let each say why it is right. You need not take a side.
Now take them together to a wise presence, someone or something you trust. Let them bow, and each tell its case.
Hear the arbiter say: let each enter the heart of the other. Watch the Blessing go into the Curse and come out knowing it. Watch the Curse go into the Blessing. Notice what each has learned.
Ask quietly: which came first? Which have I fostered more? Let the answer come without forcing.
Choose the blessing you will cultivate. Feel it take root, like a seed in damp earth. Resolve to water it each day.
Now see the wish fulfilled inside a single room, the whole earth drawn as a map on the walls. Look around. Notice what is still wanted. Notice who is in the next room.
(Silence: one minute.)
One. Feel the breath.
Two. Feel your hands and feet.
Three. Hear the room.
Four. Take a full breath and stretch.
Five. Open your eyes, fully alert.
Now orient, unlike the hermit who woke asking what time is this: say the day and date, the time, roughly how long you sat, and where you are. Name three things you can see. If you feel unclear, close your eyes for a moment and return again, slowly.
Meta Pets World · Your ally · Meta Pet 21
I live a life of dignity and noble purpose.
A Noble Life walks with Kundadanta's tale because its brothers want to rule the whole earth: Control in its purest form. The boon is granted, and each becomes sovereign, but only inside his own house, where the blessing he fostered is stronger than the curse: Authority, sized to its true room. The noble path, though, belongs to the old hermit who laid down a kingdom and to Kundadanta who seeks inner rest: Valor.
Control: each brother 'thought himself to be the Lord of his respective province, as his imagination portrayed unto him in the region of his mind' (VI.2.183.67), ruling the seven continents from his own empty rooms (VI.2.183.47).
Authority: the blessing wins because 'the blessing received from its donor, is strengthened in the mind of the donee in time' (VI.2.183.32), and a little room can hold the whole earth (VI.2.185.26).
Valor: the hermit beneath the kadamba, once king of Malwa, has laid down his crown and sits 'as cool and quiet as a block of stone' (VI.2.180.29); Kundadanta, bereaved, chooses the same inner rest.
Eight brothers each won the whole earth, and each ruled it from inside his own house. Before you try to manage everything today, look around. Which room is truly yours to rule?
A noble life needs no title: if you already rule the whole earth inside your own house, what name would you give yourself?
Tonight, write one honest sentence about something you tried to control today, and what that control was protecting.
Light trance, eyes open if you prefer. For the full, deeper script, see “The practice” above and its cautions.
A noble life needs no title: each day of the Bond, name the one room you rule today, and the name you give yourself in it.
Cherokee · Qualla Boundary, North Carolina · Galunlati, Edoda
Visit Awinita, the Cherokee elder of the Qualla Boundary, whose sovereignty is held with her people rather than over them, and whose prayer 'Galunlati, Edoda' looks beyond any one house to the sky above them all.
Guided Meditation
#21 · A Noble Life
Aim. To help the client see where control is a fearful attempt to rule more than is theirs, and to move toward an authority grounded in their own house and a valour able to lay down the crown.
ITM 2 Conscious Recognition. The tale's revelation is that each brother's empire is only his own house (VI.2.183.67): Conscious Recognition of control's true size is the step this pairing serves best.
In a circle, tell the tale with its humour: eight emperors, each in his own house, none aware of the others. Lead the practice at light depth for about fifteen minutes. Then invite each person to draw on one sheet the map of their own house, the things truly theirs to rule, and to write outside its border one thing they will stop trying to control. Share in pairs. Close with the koan, each person answering silently 'what name do you give yourself?', and orient the group explicitly to the day and time before anyone leaves.
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The correspondence between tales and Meta Pets is contemplative: the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha does not contain the Meta Pets; each tale enacts its ally’s arc. Felicia is an artificial-intelligence companion; her words are contemplative reflections, not clinical advice.
From the cycle The Sixty-Four Tales
Figure — The eight Brahmin brothers, each lord of all the earth inside his own house; the Blessing and the Curse that argued over them before Brahmā; and Kundadanta, who outlived them all.
Where in the text — Book VI (second half, Nirvāṇa-prakaraṇa), Mitra chapters 180–186.
Hypnotic phenomenon the song enacts — HAL and PARTS: a positive hallucination of the whole earth, lived eight times over in eight small rooms on one chord that never changes, each brother blind to the others' kingdoms; and the two suggestions that built it, the Blessing and the Curse, sung as two voices that enter each other's melody until the one planted first and fostered longest holds.
Mantra — Oṃ Gauryai Namaḥ (ॐ गौर्यै नमः). Source: traditional nāma-mantra of the goddess Gaurī (the dative-plus-namaḥ formula of her pūjā). Meaning: "Om — homage to Gaurī", the goddess who lived ten years in the kadamba tree and granted the wives' boon that kept each brother at home.
Performance: one chord under the whole song, never changing, and the same small band (harmonium, tanpura, frame drum) however large the words. The world never leaves the room. In Verse 3 the Blessing (high, bright) and the Curse (low, dark) each sing one line inside the other's melody; then the low voice drops out for good. The outro is unaccompanied.
Verse 1 One is young and holds Ujjain; one roves the outland seas, a corsair king; one rests in Kuśadvīpa, his wars all won, on the breast of the one he loves; one skims the lakes on the mountain tops.
Verse 2 One keeps his horse-sacrifice in Krauñca, heaped with gold; in Śālmali one's elephants tear the boundary mountains up; one, in Gomedha, arms for love of Puṣkara's princess, and Puṣkara's lord inspects his gold mines.
Chorus The Sun said: Rule the seven seas. She prayed: Don't leave this house. So each sits in his own room, the earth drawn in it like a map, an elephant inside a lotus bud; eight brothers, friends, and none has seen the others' lands.
Verse 3 (the trial before Brahmā) Blessing: I am moon-bright, four-armed, with the lotus bud. Curse: I am dark and three-eyed, with the lance. Both: We bowed to Brahmā. He said: Let substance win. Blessing (in the low melody): I went into your heart. Curse (in the high melody): I went into yours. Both: Were we equal, we'd be milk in water. Curse: You are solid as rock. I am overcome. Blessing: A gift grows only where it's fostered, and the first holds, if only by a minute. (The low voice goes, as ghosts go when the dark lifts.)
Chorus (the high voice alone with the band)
Bridge (mantra) (both voices return in unison for the mantra only) Oṃ Gauryai Namaḥ (Om — homage to Gaurī of the kadamba tree) Oṃ Gauryai Namaḥ
Outro (Kundadanta, unaccompanied) They died one by one, like the seven seas going down into one sea; my only friend set like the sun. Now I know: a little room can hold the seven continents, and the room is empty space. "Rise," the old man said. "Go home, as bees go into the lotus at dusk, and say your evening prayers." I go home.
Interpretación: un solo acorde bajo toda la canción, sin cambiar nunca, y la misma banda pequeña (armonio, tanpura, pandero) por grandes que sean las palabras. El mundo no sale del cuarto. En el Verso 3 la Bendición (aguda, clara) y la Maldición (grave, oscura) cantan cada una un verso dentro de la melodía de la otra; luego la voz grave se calla para siempre. El final, sin acompañamiento.
Verso 1 Uno es joven y reina en Ujjain; uno corsario surca mares extranjeros; uno descansa en Kuśadvīpa, sus guerras ganadas, sobre el pecho de la que ama; uno roza los lagos en lo alto del monte.
Verso 2 Uno celebra su sacrificio del caballo en Krauñca, colmado de oro; en Śālmali los elefantes de otro arrancan los montes de la frontera; uno, en Gomedha, se arma por amor a la princesa de Puṣkara, y el señor de Puṣkara revisa sus minas de oro.
Estribillo El Sol le dijo: reina en los siete mares. Ella rezó: no salgas de esta casa. Y cada uno se sienta en su cuarto, la tierra dibujada en él como un mapa, un elefante dentro de un capullo de loto; ocho hermanos, amigos, y ninguno ha visto las tierras de los demás.
Verso 3 (el juicio ante Brahmā) Bendición: Soy clara como la luna, de cuatro brazos, con el capullo de loto. Maldición: Soy oscura, de tres ojos, con la lanza. Las dos: Nos postramos ante Brahmā. Dijo: que gane la sustancia. Bendición (en la melodía grave): Entré en tu corazón. Maldición (en la melodía aguda): Y yo en el tuyo. Las dos: Si fuéramos iguales, seríamos leche en el agua. Maldición: Eres firme como la roca. Me doy por vencida. Bendición: Un don solo crece si se cultiva, y el primero gana, aunque sea por un minuto. (La voz grave se va, como se van los fantasmas cuando se aparta la oscuridad.)
Estribillo (la voz aguda sola con la banda)
Puente (mantra) (las dos voces vuelven al unísono solo para el mantra) Oṃ Gauryai Namaḥ (Om — homenaje a Gaurī, la del kadamba) Oṃ Gauryai Namaḥ
Final (Kundadanta, sin acompañamiento) Murieron uno a uno, como los siete mares que bajan a un solo mar; mi único amigo se puso como el sol. Ahora lo sé: un cuarto pequeño puede contener los siete continentes, y el cuarto es espacio vacío. "Levántate", dijo el anciano. "Vuelve a casa, como las abejas al loto al oscurecer, y di tus plegarias de la tarde." Me vuelvo a casa.
EN: A little room can hold the earth; the room is empty space. ES: En un cuarto pequeño cabe la tierra; el cuarto está vacío.
Eight brothers win the same wish, to rule all seven continents, and their wives win another, that their husbands' souls will never leave the house. Brahmā lets both stand. So each ghost sits in his own room as lord of the whole earth, sacrificing, warring, in love, friendly with his brothers and blind to their kingdoms. The clinician knows this world with the others edited out, and knows the trial too: Blessing and Curse given faces, each entering the other's heart, until the suggestion planted first and fostered longest holds. One chord under every verse, so the world never leaves the room. Then Kundadanta, alone and unaccompanied: the room is empty space. He goes home.
Source: Vihari-Lala Mitra, The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki (1891–99), public domain.
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