Jvālāmālinī

This chapter opens on the Caturdaśī tithi — the day of Jvālāmālinī, Garlanded with Flames. The fourteenth verse invokes Lakṣmī again with solar imagery — the sun's radiance as the quality of wealth made fully visible. Jvālāmālinī burns away the residue between greed and fear, the twin extremes that oscillate when the middle ground of discerning passion is not inhabited. Her kalā is Samarasā — equal taste, the state in which gain and loss are held within the same equanimity.