> Read 'em.
> Did we not invite Byakuren to the party tonight?
>Byakuren did not respond. You get the feeling she is busy.
>It seems each relief is prefaced with: "You have ignored our words. It is important that you turn back! Seal this place with your most enduring architecture. Only death is served by opening this place. Leave it." However, below that is something else, sculpted less crudely. "Witness the words of he whose acts caused this place to be place to be built, o interloper, and decide!"
>One relief reads: "There is no Brahman, of this I am certain. For these words, my head is forfeit. But it matters not, samsara continues without such figures. Yet my brothers resist the truth. They, whose arts put them most fully in touch with the fabric of the world, turn their backs to this reality. They, whom bend and break the rules of the world, hold this facade as if to pretend some sort of respectability! They, who offer at the altar of knowledge, ignore he that has gained the most knowledge! Have I not crystallized the essences of sorcery and the heart? Have I not reached further than any of them, pulled back more of the veil than any of them? I have seen the faces of the true gods, and they are not Brahman. No loving deities are they, no integral part of us all, drawing us into one. They are cold things not to be comprehended by the likes of us, not yet."
>A second relief reads: "O woe to those who cling blindly to tradition! How can I uncover their eyes? How can I convince the Shudras they are but slaves? The Unclean that they are but dupes? They live a lie, I have seen it! Yet they turn a deaf ear. The sorcerers have made me, the highest among them, their enemy in trying to open the eyes of the many! Not a Kshatriya that lives but would have my head. How terrible this fate, to see the truth and be hated by those that should love me best! The sorcerers think to gain acceptance with my blood, to embrace what they best know is a lie. I dabble in forbidden things, they say! To this I ask, who has forbidden it? Let them all see the face of the true gods, and understand the futility of their pains.
>A third relief says: "There is no Brahman, and I shall prove with deed to what they close their eyes and their eyes. They cry for their false gods, and I shall give them that. I shall create Rudra with my own hands, and let them see what it is that they seek. Let them cry to Vishnu and Brahmin, let them say "How could they allow such a thing?" And there will be no answer, for there is none to answer. Let it pull apart their works with its own hand Let the cold true gods be its sword, let the sorceries I wrought be its soul! Let them see their falsehoods torn asunder and despair! Then, they may understand and they may progress"
>There are more reliefs, but they echo the warning, the invitation, and the messages.
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