Hindu Medicine c7.189

c7.189

Soon, however, the king feels remorse for having left, in an almost ungrateful hurry, the presence of Lady Loving Devotion. He had gone forth again to defend his realm, the physical body, against the enemy, instead of devoting himself by continued pious meditation to the beatifying presence of the Godhead. Remembrance (smṛti), however, anticipating his remorse, has betaken herself to Loving Devotion and now leads her together with her friend, Lady Faith (śraddhā), into the presence of the king. Loving Devotion assures him of her unwavering sympathy. She will help him conquer the enemy, and when victory is won she will teach him the fundamental identity of his own nature with the essence of the Godhead. Then, through faithful self-surrender to Śiva, “ he will also achieve what his worldly mind desires.”