~~OM~~

Ravana and Kumbhakarna, and Vibhishana, the three, when they were young men, they went off to do tapasya. And Brahma came and said, “I’m satisfied with your tapasya, what do you want?” And Ravana said, “I want power, I want to be the king of the earth.” And Brahma said, “Tatastu. I give you the boon.”

And Kumbhakarna had planned that he would want to have dominion over heaven. And he wanted Indra’s asan. Indra knew Kumbhakarna’s intention and he said to Saraswati, “Saraswati, you have to help us, please make him make a mistake.”

And Brahma said, “Kumbhakarna, what do you want?” And instead of saying I want Indra’s asan, he said, “I want Nidra’s asan.” And Brahma said, “Evamastu. You go to sleep, I give you the asan, you get the posture of sleep.”

And Vibhishana said, “Brahma, I want pure devotion to God’s feet.” And Brahma said, “Tatastu. One day Ram will come and he will give you the blessing of his perception, he will give you Darshan. And now discrimination, Vibhishana, is on his way to get the Darshan that he was promised by Brahma, it was the fruit of his tapasya. All his life he was living in the kingdom of the ego like a tongue between the teeth. And now he’s been kicked out of the kingdom of the ego and he’s going to see Ram.”