One passage from the latter play, where the truth begins to penetrate the Queen's simplicity, will indicate the death motive:
Sudarshana
How can you say that I shall be unable to bear your sight? Oh, I can feel even in this dark how lovely and wonderful you are: why should I be afraid of you in the light? But tell me, can you see me in the dark?
King
Yes, I can.
Sudarshana
What do you see?
King
I see that the darkness of the infinite heavens, whirled into life and being by the power of my love, has drawn the light of a myriad stars into itself, and incarnated itself in a form of flesh and blood.…
She cannot understand the mystery of the darkness that is not dark to the vision of this inscrutable lord of love and life-in-death. It is equally wonderful that he can see in her, Sudarshana, what he does. She asks him if she is really as he says—"so wonderful, so beautiful"—for she cannot find these qualities in herself. The King replies that not even her own mirror can reflect them. "Could you only
