The Universe in a Room
Queen Lila & the Goddess Sarasvati
Queen Lila will not let the lamp go out. She calls the goddess of wisdom by name and learns to fly — on thought, the only wing anyone has ever needed — into her husband's dream, where an entire creation lives inside a space smaller than a mustard seed. Worlds within worlds; each real as it is believed. Two women's voices in duet, harp and veena, suspended in mid-air.
Om Aim Saraswatyai Namaha
I bow to Sarasvati; Aim is the seed syllable of insight arriving.
Traditional bija mantra of the goddess of wisdom
Whatever you believe completely becomes a sky.
My love lay still at midnight's border I would not let the lamp go out I called the goddess of the rivers Of speech, to wash away my doubt Come, little queen, leave weight behind you Thought is the only wing you need Your husband dreams a whole creation Inside a single mustard seed Worlds within worlds within a world A palace folded in a room Whatever mind believes completely Becomes the sky, becomes the bloom I flew through ceilings made of aeons I watched him reign, I watched him grieve Each life as real as any other Each real only as we believe Om Aim Saraswatyai Namaha Om Aim Saraswatyai Namaha Space is a thought the thinker opened Time is a thread the dreamer drew The curtain thought has drawn between us Thought can draw open too Worlds within worlds within a world A palace folded in a room Whatever mind believes completely Becomes the sky, becomes the bloom Awake inside the dream Awake... awake
The song, the book and the research are one teaching entering through three different doors.
Listen to all twelve songs here, with libreto, lyrics and mantra — and on Apple Music and Spotify.
The long-form reading and the YVH model, on the author's site.
OpenThe published research at the World Happiness Foundation.
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