The Bajang Child Swinging the Moon (154)

"Begawan," said Dewi Sokawati breaking the silence, "Maybe it is fate that just now your eyes are open, that the ugliness is not necessarily lust. In contrast, now it is proven that lust is good. But what's the use of differentiating between the good and the bad? Since both of them were in my womb, I received both of them as my children."

Dewi Sokawati paused for a moment, recalling what she said in the past. "Throwing out the ugly is the same as throwing out the good, Begawan. And in the lives of your two children it has become real; the good one required the bad, so that the good could be prevented from a bad fate and purified by the bad. Because of his good looks as a human, Sumantri was tempted to feel himself to be perfect, even though the perfection made him unaware, so that he did not feel that the darkness of his lust, and was quietly suffocating and absorbing him. Meanwhile, because he was bad, apparently a demon, Sukrosono was freed from being teased to feel perfect, until the sanctity had strengthened him, so that the darkness of his brother was prevented from the bad fate and cleaned. Wasn't it Sukrosono who helped Sumantri until Sumantri could arrive at this place, Begawan?"