The Mandala World

The Mandala World

Our hero was in a realm of chaos here there was no place even to stand. Our hero wanted to find a pure land so he made a magic painting and sang a magic song. The song carried him across an infinite expanse of greyness to a sphere of sound and light. There were four inhabitants of that region each having a giant golden with with eight spokes.

The realm of sound and light was in the body of a dragon queen who had divided her body to creat the world. Her contiinuing sound current created every living thing and its echo sustains all the spheres that follow. If she ever stops singing the life stream would stop and all material and mental worlds would ceast to exist. She is the mother of all including men and monsters.

The golden wheels continuosly rolled through her body killing trespassers. Her body was also used as food for the devotees of the magic of chaos. Our hero continued on his travels.The wheels came to crush our hero but the guardian Driterashtra, king of hevenly music, heard our hero's song. It was the most beautiful music he had ever heard. Driterashtra immediately made our hero king of that realm.

I am Driterashtra, guardian of the east and kikng of heavenly musicians known as the gandharvas. My music controls the forces of nature. I dictated the Therma of the Ghandarva Veda.

I'm director of the Gongchime Ensembles in Shangri La, Shambhall, Nirvana, the western paradise and the eastern pure land. I sustain the Shabd; the soundless sound, the sound current which sustains life and creates worlds the prehistoric orgasmic kaleidoscope of sound and colored light that that created the omniverse and calls spirits home. The unity into itself.

My music is the rainbow bridge as difficult ot cross as a razors edge that connects worlds of heaven and earth through which the sould travels and clothes itself. My music is the lost chord which is more sublime than any earthly music. I inspire all profane earthly music which is but a pale reflection of my concordance.

I make the river of forever flow in both directions simultaneously. I come down the tree of life to awaken the seven powers of light.

The king of heavenly music also taught him a new song and the new song carried him across another infinite expanse of greynbess to a sphere of soil that made the other expanse seem like hopping over a puddle and hadn't been so far after all. In this region lived the goddess Gaia.
Gaia could bestow peace, love, beauty, wealth, strength, wisdom and even a family.

Her function is as a barrier to the other spheres. She was about to stop our hero and kill him with an army of gnomes and elves but when she saw his magic painting, the light of it pierced her heart. She thought if mere artwork from this person can pass through my body how could I stop its creator. So, she made him king over all the earth and gave him a wonderous treasure.

He was not happy here because there were no people or food to eat and nothing to use to build a shelter. She let him pass through her body giving him access to the third infinite expanse. The third sphere was a realm of water patroled by Naga dragons who ate tresspassers.

The giant king of the Naga serpents was about to eat him when she saw his wonderful treasure. The naga serpent already had a treasure of his own but could never get enough. Our hero gave the treasure to him in exchange for not eating him.

The Naga king was so happy , he made our hero king of the waters and gave him a magic alphabet and 8 beautiful maidens who secretly loved him. Anyway, he didn't like this new world though because still there was nothing to use to build a shelter and no good food to eat. He couldn't take his new wives with him so he left them all behind.

The Naga let him pass to the fourth infinite expanse which made all the others seem like only pools. The next world was a sphere of fire whose light he saw while approaching it through the greyness. The realm of fire usually would have burned tresspassers but our hero spelled a magic word in the air with his new alphabet and the fire king, a salamander with the wings of a Phoenix, parted the flames to let our hero pass.

"So, the Naga king has give you his magic alphabet. He hasn't given that to anyone in a long time. Actually, I've wanted that alphabet for as long as I can remember but no one will sell it to me. Our hero was glad to just give it to him and the king of fires was so happy that he made our hero king of fires but our hero didn't like it there because it was too hot.

The Salamander took some water from the Naga kingdom and heated it with a little fire and made a magic cloud. Our hero rode the magic cloud across the next infinite expanse to a sphere of air.

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Our hero agreed because it must be the best world by far. They went to explore the temple and entered through the northern gate which had a small pool in front. It was guarded by the king of turtles who let them pass.

Inside the temple was very beatuiful but simple and the ceiling was a dome like that of the sky of this world. The corners were pillars like that of the four trees holding up the sky of this world. The eastern gate was gurded by a tigetr king of the forests but who was very kind to them since they had been invited by the dragon and the lion.

The southyern gate had a small fire in front and it was guarded by a phoenix who lived in the fire. The western gate was guarded by a golden king of dragons who offered all his treasure to them if they would take up residence in the temple which they idid becausethere was plenty of food in the fields, they could drink from the pond and cook in Phoenix's fire.

At tnight while taking walks in the garden and fields they could see a star shining directly over their temple where they lived happily ever after.`