[laughs]

You asked, um, I think, um, you asked a question that, um, that, that is really important prev-- uh, earlier in our discussion where, you know, what is the function of, what's the reason for listing these avataras? And one of them is that it, it, it anticipate, it acts almost as a...

It gives you, uh, the reader a certain eagerness to...

There's just enough detail there to give the reader eagerness, and it anticipates what's to come in the, later in the text.

Of course, not always, as you mentioned, not with Hayagriva.

[laughs] Um, but one other reason of c- uh, of course is that, uh, here you have a strong devotional focus, and this particular list of lila avataras, um, it becomes a subject of, uh, remembrance and practice in devotional practice.

In fact, I, when I was reading this chapter, I couldn't help but think of some of the songs of our m- more recent teachers in our lineage.

Could you say something about those verses? They, they move away from the list into a more general topic.