Stefan Zweig, the writer with a thousand faces, has written more than sixty literary works. Among the rarest in their beauty and style is "The Eyes of the Eternal Brother" - a legend from pre-Buddhist India. The actors are: a king, a people, a timeless, indefinite space - and therefore also contemporary. The hero is a warrior named Virata who falls into service in the royal service. Virata's path is epic, but his trajectory is unusual and his turns are reversed: soldier - judge - prisoner - monk - simple man. Virata seeks above all his spiritual freedom and liberation from all guilt. All stages of the novella carry existential, philosophical, and subtle charges. The literary energy is found - similar to the plot - in the power and silence beyond words. "The Eyes of the Eternal Brother" is an unusual text, "nightly". Reading it slowly may provide peaceful and mysterious pleasure, raise questions, and, as in modern masterpieces, reveal an elusive truth.