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This acceptance, this knowing that unsolvable riddles exist, is what catapults us into the next journey. This knowing, this understanding is so overwhelmingly beautiful for we feel our finitude in this infinitude, our nanoseconds ticking against eternitudes, we are humbled, divinely so, and this humbling is what flings open the door to the divine, to Vetala’s and King Trivikramasena’s Great Lord, the innermost essence of soul, who reveals one’s purpose, one’s essence, one’s very and every being. King Trivikramasena understands his limitations, and this understanding releases him from his vicious circular journey. King Trivikramasena knows now that he must begin his linear journey, that he must trust his spirit (Vetala) without a gram of doubt and that he must obey his calling; he must, he must. With every step, he must advance towards that which sustains darkness, towards those frenzies of ghosts and vampires that “resound with screams of piercing malice” in the “ghastly fog” infected with funeral pyres, skeletons and decomposed corpses. In this endless labyrinth of exile, King Trivikramasena, crosses with his own metaphorical, Thesean “golden cord,” Vetala, Spirit of spirits, united in goodness, knowledge, virtue, justice, trust and devotion.
This devotion and commitment is what guarantees King Trivikramasena’s and Vetala’s salvation. With the same fervor and devotion as the 1st Brahmin of the Four Suitors who refuses
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