“Remember me when things are to be done.”
Vyasa to his mother Satyavati Kali, after he was born and forced his body to mature that very day by will power”, meaning that he would appear before her whenever she thought of him, quoted by Alf Hiltebeitel in P.47.
Sources, A Reader's Guide to the Education of the Dharma King
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