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introduction

Having set Thought’s household in its new and proper order, the goddess commands the performance of memorial offerings for their deceased kin.

Faith and Peace are in dialogue, in the prologue to act six, revealing that, following Thought’s reconciliation with Dispassion, the Inner Man, who is the Supreme Self, is now increasingly coming into his own. Owing to his newfound detachment even Lex has grown quiescent, as there is no longer reason to contemplate consequential actions, whether the goals be good or bad. Nevertheless, the old foe Magnus Nescience has been still able to stir up some trouble: he has managed to conjure up visions of the delectable state called the “Honeyed Realm,” so that the Inner Man was for a while tempted to return to samsara, until Reason entered the scene to snap him out of it. Faith and Peace conclude their discussion, hastening to arrange for Intuition’s meeting at last with Upanishad.

The Inner Man now sings the praises of Hail Vishnu, when Peace enters with Upanishad. The latter is hesitant to approach, for she recalls that she had been rejected once before and thereafter fell into grave difficulty. Peace objects that the Inner Man was blameless and that it was Nescience whose nefarious schemes had caused Upanishad to be separated from Intuition. She had taken refuge with her daughter Gita, that is, the “Bhagavad·gita,” in order to escape from Reason, a state of affairs that Intuition finds puzzling. All gather before the Inner Man, who honors Upanishad and inquires as to what she had suffered during her prolonged exile.

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