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the latter and his party must quit Varanasi or face death in battle. Taking up the challenge, Nescience sends the heresies into action as the first wave of his attack. The goddess Sarasvati appears at the head of Intuition’s army to rally his troops. She is soon joined by Lady Hermeneutics—the Mimansaka philosophy—together with the other schools and traditions that affirm the authority of the Veda. Though they have often been discordant in the past, they are now united by a common purpose. As Faith explains it, all those that are founded in the Vedic revelation partake of the same inner light.

In the heat of the ensuing combat, the materialist system soon perishes, quickly abandoned by both sides. The surviving heretics are driven to the frontiers. Lust, Anger and the remaining close allies of Nescience are slain in individual combat, while Nescience himself has fled and gone into hiding no-one-knows-where. Thought, the father of both Intuition and Nescience, learning of the demise of so many of his progeny, now grows despondent and contemplates suicide. Once apprised of this, Hail Vishnu dispatches Sarasvati to console him.

The scene shifts: Thought is bemoaning his losses to Intention, when Sarasvati enters and, after instructing him on the means whereby he might regain his composure, encourages Thought to be reconciled with Dispassion, a son he had abandoned at birth long ago. Father and son joyfully reunite, and Sarasvati, recognizing that Thought cannot remain alone following the loss of his first wife, Eva Lucienne, or active engagement in the world, now confirms his marriage with Diva Lucienne, the process of disengagement. _______

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