Chapter 14 — Muslim King Favors Sayamdev

Literal. Sayamdev is summoned by his cruel Muslim master who is known to kill a Brahmin annually. He fears for his life. Shri Guru places his palm on Sayamdev's head and assures him: go fearlessly; he will receive you well. Sayamdev goes, mentally reciting Shri Guru's name. The king sees him, turns away, falls into a sound sleep, dreams of being beaten by a Brahmin, awakes, prostrates at Sayamdev's feet, gives him gifts, and sends him back. Sayamdev returns to Shri Guru. Shri Guru tells him to wait 15 years; they will meet again in his next phase of work.

Symbolic. Mental recitation of the teacher's name as protective protocol in the face of unbreakable adversarial pressure. The dream-rewrite is the chapter's mechanism: external behavior changes because internal state changes; the king's hostility is dissolved before he wakes, by a process that operates outside ordinary causation.

Structural. Annual Brahmin-killing as an established ritual cruelty (concrete historical practice, possibly Bahmani-period). 15 years until reunion. The king's transition: hostile → drowsy → dream-corrected → prostrate.