Master_Margarita
The Lovers card is really quite heartrending in this deck. Siddhartha has just resolved to leave his life of pleasure and diversion in order to find a cure for the suffering in life. We see the lovely Yasodhara, flowers in her hair, co-sleeping with Rahula, and Siddhartha behind them, poised to go, but not yet gone. It's a beautiful composition of a sad tableau.
It seems so fundamentally unkind, from the point of view of the moment depicted on this card, to look at Siddhartha's choice as a choice of love. His choice to embark on the path of asceticism, without regard to vows he has made to Yasodhara, still is a choice of ego. This was a necessary step on his path to full enlightenment, but his wife and child are tossed aside in the process. Of course, they obtain full enlightenment in the end. Still...
It seems so fundamentally unkind, from the point of view of the moment depicted on this card, to look at Siddhartha's choice as a choice of love. His choice to embark on the path of asceticism, without regard to vows he has made to Yasodhara, still is a choice of ego. This was a necessary step on his path to full enlightenment, but his wife and child are tossed aside in the process. Of course, they obtain full enlightenment in the end. Still...
