Do you remember having told me a story?

I wish you to explain to me very clearly who is that mother of whom you talked and also your friend and the husband of that friend. A nd who are those sons? I wish to understand all this very clearly. I have not been able to understand clearly although I believe that you have not told me a lie. I feel you have tried to exp lain to me in the form of an analogy. I wish now that it may be made clearer so that it may stick to me. I am drawn deeply in love with you. This is the only doubt now within me, beloved. Pl ease be kind enough to remove it." Having been spoken to like this, face and eyes of Hemalekha were illumined with joy. She realized that her dear husband had really become indifferent towards the objects of senses through the grace of God. His heart had become pure. That great Goddess, pure sp irit and consciousness, had made him like herself. It seems that his merits of past have come to fructification, hence time for his illumination was near. I should therefore enli ghten him. Thinking like this, she spoke: "Lord of my life, a great fortune has come to you, due to the grace of God. Rare persons have been seen to become indifferent to the objects of senses like you. The first sig n of the grace of God is to be detached from the desire of enjoyments. And the second sign is inwa rdisation of thought. I shall now explain to you clearly what I said before. Mother I spoke of in my story is the transcendent consciousness; intellect is my friend. The one in whose company this intelligence got involved is ignorance, an d everyone knows well enough the wonderful power of this ignorance. It is this power which creates the illusion of serpent on a peace of rope and makes one fear. Her son is great infa tuation and the son of this great infatuation is mind. And his wife is imagination or thought-power. And the five sons to whom she gave birth are five organs of sense and their houses are the physiol ogical organs in the body. These create dispositions when the objects of senses are enjoyed. Thus this accumulation of disposition is the strength which these sons gave to their fathe r. The stolen enjoyments are nothing but dreams, and that hungering sister of this thought-pow er is craving. Desire and anger are her sons, and this body is the town in which they live. The formula which she got from me is nothing but the intuition which one gets regarding one's own true essence, and this life-breath is the propagandist friend of mind. And the wild forest in which he went is the underworld. And the contact of intelligence with myself meant intelligence's approach and understanding of the nature of consciousness. That also is oneness with me and w hat is known as Samadhi, and, oh beloved, attainment of the home of my mother meant liberation. - This, in

short, is the inner meaning of the story I told you before. In this manner, havi ng understood, attain to that highest abode."