PAST LIVES OF LÍLÁ. The two ladies then disappeared from that place, leaving the Bráhman family at their house in the mountainous village. 2. The family exclaimed “We are highly favoured by the sylvan goddesses;” and then forgetting their grief, they betook themselves to their domestic employments. 3. Then the etherial goddess spake to the aerial-Lílá, who stood fixed in air, over the mansion of the Bráhman, in a state of mute astonishment. 4. They then conversed as familiarly with each other, as persons having the same thoughts and desires, agree with one another in their views and acts; and as the dreamers of the same dream hold their mutual correspondence, like _Usha and Aniruddha_ (the Cupid and Psyche of India). 5. Their conversation in their immaterial forms, was of the same intellectual (psychical) kind, as we are conscious of in our dreams and imaginations. 6. Sarasvatí said:—Now you have fully known the knowable, and become acquainted with whatever is visible and invisible: such is the essence of Brahma; say now what more you want to know. 7. Lílá said:—Tell me the reason why I was seen by my son, and not where the spirit of my departed lord is reigning over his realm. 8. Sarasvatí replied:—Because you were not then perfect by your practice of Yoga to have your wish fulfilled, nor had you then lost your sense of duality, which is a preventive of perfection. 9. He who has not known the unity, is not entitled to the acts and benefits of his faith in the true God; as no one sitting in the sun, can enjoy the coolness of shade. 10. You were not practiced to forget your identity as Lílá, nor learnt that it is not your will, but the will of God that is always fulfilled. 11. You have afterwards become of pure desire, and wished that your son might see you, whereby he was enabled to have your sight. 12. Now if you should return to your husband, and do the like, you will undoubtedly be successful in your desire. 13. Lílá said:—I see within the sphere of this dome (of my mind), the Bráhman to have been my husband before; and I see also in it, that he died and became a ruler of the earth afterwards. 14. I see in it that spot of the earth, that city and that palace of his where I sat as his queen. 15. I see within myself my lord to be reigning in that place, and I see even there how he died afterwards. 16. I see herein the glory of the sovereign of so many countries on earth, and I see also the perfect frankness of his conduct through life. 17. I see the worlds in the inner sky of my mind, as they are placed in a casket, or as the oil is contained in a mustard seed. 18. I see the bright orb of my husband ever roving before me, and now I pray you to contrive any how to place me by his side. 19. The Goddess replied:—Tell me Lílá, to what husband you shall go, as there are hundreds of them that you had, and shall have in your past and future lives, and now there are three of them confined in this earth.