"Who is your mother? Who is your friend? Who is her husband? Who are her sons? Tell me, what relationship have all these people to me?"
- My mother : Transcendence — pure Consciousness
- My friend : Intellect (discerning faculty)
- Madam Dark(the undesirable friend of intellect): Ignorance
- Her son is the greatest of illusions : the mind
- Illusion's wife : thought or concept or imagination
- Their(illusion and thoughts) sons: audition, taste, sight, touch and smell
- Their(son's) mansion: respective senses
- Daughter-in-law of imagination: dream
- Madam Vorax : desire
- Vorax's sons: anger and greed
- Their city: body
- My most potent talisman: Realization of the Self
- Mind's friend guarding the city: the vital principle that keeps moving as life breath.
- The different cities peopled by them: hells passed in the eternal passage of the soul
- The consummation of the discerning faculty: Samadhi
- My admission into my mother's chamber : final emancipation
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