"The internal controller is declared as residing in the soul, the actuator of the soul, "Described in a multitude of texts of the Upanishads, such as 'Who abiding in the soul.' "By the worship of 'adoration,' a man casting off his defilement becomes a qualified votary; "By the subsequent worship of 'emanation,' he becomes qualified for the worship of 'manifestation;' next, "By the worship thereafter of 'the subtile,' he becomes able to behold the 'internal controller.'" The worship of the Deity is described in the Pañcha-rátra as consisting of five elements, viz., (1.) the access, (2.) the preparation, (3.) oblation, (4.) recitation, (5.) devotion. Of these, access is the sweeping, smearing, and so forth, of the way to the temple. The preparation is the provision of perfumes, flowers, and the like appliances of worship. Oblation is worship of the deities. Recitation is the muttered ejaculation of sacred texts, with attention to what they mean, the rehearsal of hymns and lauds of Vishṇu, the commemoration of his names, and study of institutes which set forth the truth. Devotion is meditation on the Deity. When the vision of the visible world has been brought to a close by knowledge accumulated by the merit of such worship, the infinitely compassionate Supreme Spirit, tender to his votaries, bestows upon the votary devoted to his lord and absorbed in his lord, his own sphere infinite and endless, marked by consciousness of being like him, from which there is no future return (to the sorrows of transmigratory existence). So the traditionary text-- "When they have come to me, the high-souled no longer undergo future birth, a receptacle of pain, transitory, having attained to the supreme consummation. "Vásudeva, having found his votary, bestows upon him his own mansion, blissful, undecaying, from whence there is no more return."