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He prostrated himself before the rishi, who asked him why he was so sad. The Brahman's son said, "I am sad because my father has been born again as a bullock and my mother as a dog. Pray tell me how I can get their release," The rishi said, "There is only one way to help them. You must worship the seven sages who have their home in the Great Bear."
On the one side there is Brahman's absolute perfection and antagonism to all evil; on the other it is the substrate of Nescience, and thereby the substrate of a false appearance which is involved in endless pain; for to be connected with evil means to be the substrate of Nescience and the appearance of suffering which is produced thereby.
When the old woman had seated herself inside the house, the Brahman's wife got up and, in despair, went to look inside the grain-pots. She knew they were empty, but she thought that she would first look into them once again. But, lo and behold! when she looked this time she found the grain-pots brimming over with grain. She called her husband, and they were both perfectly delighted.
Not even for the purpose, we reply, of making sense of Scripture may we assume what in itself is senseless and contradictory! Let us then say that Brahman's connexion with evil is real, and its absolute perfection unreal!
But on the other hand, the very pious, of whom India has always produced a superabundance, were not willing to bear the cares of domestic life and renounced the world before the prescribed time. The Brahman's existence as drawn in the law-books is a description of what the writers thought ought to be done rather than of the general practice.
The messengers then took the Brahman's wife home, and shortly afterwards the boy was born again. His mother had carefully guarded the memory of all that she had heard in the other world; and when the child asked for the dust and the winnowing fan and the elephant, she at once gratified his desires. So the boy grew up, and his wedding day arrived.
The rites of the new religion are, if not antagonistic, at least alternative to the ancient sacrifices, yet far from being forbidden they are performed by Brahmans and modern Indian writers describe Śiva as peculiarly the Brahman's god.
But the king finally persuaded him, and with all due form married his daughter Moonlight to Moon, who pretended to be the old Brahman's son. Then Root went home with the bride and bridegroom. But then Master-mind came, and in the presence of Root, a great dispute arose between him and Moon. Master-mind said: "Moonlight should be given to me. I married the girl first with my teacher's permission."
He at once deputed him to the charge of this temple, and ordered fifty kharwars of rice and one hundred rupees to be paid to him every year as wages. Two months after this, the Brahman's wife, not having heard any news of her husband, left the house and went in quest of him.
Then her father and mother understood and wept with her, saying that they would do what man could do but this was in the hands of God; and they sang: "Whatever the child of another may suffer, we care not: But our own child, we will take into our lap, even when it is covered with dust." CXLVI. The Brahman's Clothes.
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