46. And as the erroneous conception of the existence of the world, has continued since its first creation (by the will of Brahma); so it has been ever since attributed to an eternal fate—niyati (by fatalists), and to an illusory power (_máyá sakti of Máyá vadis_). 47. Lílá asked:—Thou saidst O goddess? that we shall go together to the abode of the Brahman pair, but I ask thee to tell me, how are we to effect our journey there? 48. As for me, I shall be able to go there with the purer part of my essence the sentient soul (after leaving this my gross body here). But tell me how wilt thou that art pure intellect (_chetas_), go to that place? 49. The goddess replied:—I tell thee lady, that the divine will is an aerial tree, and its fruits are as unsubstantial as air, having no figure nor form nor substance in them. 50. And whatever is formed by the will of God from the pure essence of his intelligent nature, is only a likeness of himself, and bears little difference from its original. 51. This body of mine is of the like kind, and I will not lay it aside, but find out that place by means of this as the breeze finds the odours. 52. And as water mixes with water, fire with fire and air with air, so does this spiritual body easily join with any material form that it likes. 53. But a corporeal body cannot mix with an incorporeal substance, nor a solid rock become the same with an ideal hill. 54. And as your body, which is composed both of its spiritual and mental parts, has become corporeal by its habitual tendency to corporeality. 55. So your material body becomes spiritual (_átiváhika_), by means of your leaning to spirituality, as in your sleep, in your protracted meditation, insensibility, fancies and reveries. 56. Your spiritual nature will then return to your body, when your earthly desires are lessened and curbed within the mind. 57. Lílá said:—Say goddess, what becomes of the spiritual body after it has attained its compactness by constant practice of yoga; whether it becomes indestructible, or perishes like all other finite bodies. 58. The goddess replied:—Any thing that exists is perishable, and of course liable to death; but how can that thing die which is nothing, and is imperishable in its nature? (Such is the spirit). 59. Again the fallacy of the snake in a rope being removed, the snake disappears of itself, and no one doubts of it any more. 60. Thus, as the true knowledge of the rope, removes the erroneous conception of the snake in it, so the recognition of the spiritual body, dispels the misconception of its materiality. 61. All imagery is at an end when there is no image at all, as the art of statuary must cease for want of stones on earth. (Thus they attribute materiality to the immaterial spirit from their familiarity with matter). 62. We see clearly our bodies full of the spirit of God, which you can not perceive owing to your gross understanding.