I have not heard or read this story. The more commonly known Lalita in the Ashram was Amal Kiran’s wife. I know some of The Mother’s astasakhis, but never heard about her from them either. Where did you hear or read it from?
Affectionately,
Alok Da
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I have not heard or read this story. The more commonly known Lalita in the Ashram was Amal Kiran’s wife. I know some of The Mother’s astasakhis, but never heard about her from them either. Where did you hear or read it from?
Affectionately,
Alok Da
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This is an alternate version which is clearly suspect. The original story is clearly symbolic of the triple forces of Nature, Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas, the three chariots of three asura brothers, notably of gold, silver and iron. The three modes of nature are never aligned. If and when aligned, the Asuras die and the Self is liberated. To do that …

The dwarf triple bodied trinity are the three levels at which the present human mind operates. They are, in evolutionary sequence, the physical, vital and the mental mind or the mind proper.Β
The physical mind is heavily dependent upon the senses and the raw data they provide. It trusts only that which can be seen and measured. Then there is the vital mind that takes flights of imagination, thereby escaping from the ‘sensory reality’ in search of that which is hidden. It is the mind that fantasises, and in the process, might hit…

This is because the vital is unsteady. Practice equanimity, apply reason to control the vital from jumping from one thing to another, above all, call Peace and Calm to fix this not so uncommon difficulty.