The monkeys were returning from a battle with the demons, with their bodies wounded and bleeding. But when Rama's loving look rested on them for a moment, all their pain vanished. Now, if someone else had taken a photograph of Rama's eyes and look at that moment, and carefully opened out his own eyes in the same way, could this have the same power? The very attempt would be ridiculous.

8. When vikarma is combined with karma, a power is released which results in akarma (inaction in action). The huge log of wood burns and becomes a handful of ashes, with which we can joyfully smear our bodies. In the same way, the fire of vikarma reduces karma to the ashes of akarma. What is the relation between the wood and the ash? "Kah kena sambandhah?" (What is the relation and with what?) They have no common properties, and yet there is no doubt that the ash came from the wood.

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