Yama यम | The Threshold Where Names Are Read | Museum Poster

Yama is no stranger, child. He is the calm man at the gate, the one who has been waiting all along. When the time comes he does not hurry you, does not chase. He simply stands at the threshold of the southern road, his great black buffalo breathing beside him, and reads your name from the book. Every soul who has ever walked the earth has met him here. He is not cruel and he is not kind. He is fair. That is the gift he gives us — a world where the scales still balance, and every quiet kindness is remembered.