20. The nearest of the three, is the Bráhman who is here reduced to ashes; the next is the prince lying in state and covered with flowers in the inner apartment. 21. The third is now a reigning prince in this earth, and has been buffeting in the waves of error in the vast ocean of the world. 22. His intellect is darkened and disordered by the splashing waves of worldliness, his intelligence is perverted to stupidity, and he is converted to a tortoise in the ocean of the world. 23. The management of his very many disordered state affairs, has stultified him to a lubbard, and he is now fast asleep amidst the turmoils of business. 24. He is fast bound to subjection by the strong chain of his thoughts, that he is a lord, is mighty, accomplished, and that he is happy and is to enjoy his estates for ever. 25. Now say, O excellent lady! to what husband you wish to be led, in the manner of the fragrance of one forest borne by the breeze to another. 26. Here you are in one place, and there they in others amidst this vast world; and the state of their lives and manners differs widely from one another. 27. These orbs of light in the heaven, though they appear to be placed so near us (both to our eyesight and in the mind), are yet situated millions of leagues apart from one another; and the departed souls are carried in them (in their endless transmigrations). 28. And again all these bodies are as vacuous as air, though they contain the great mounts Meru and Mandara in themselves. 29. All bodies are formed by the combination of atoms, incessantly proceeding from the Great Intellect, like particles of sun-beams over the universe. 30. The great and stupendous fabric of the world, is no more (in the eye of intelligence), than a quantity of paddy weighed in the balance. 31. As the spangled heavens appear like a forest full of brilliant gems in it, so the world appears as full of the glory of God to the contemplative mind, and not as composed of earth or other material bodies in it. 32. It is intelligence alone, that shines in the form of world in the intelligent soul, and not any material body, which was never brought into being before. 33. As billows in the lake, rise and set and rise again, so the rising and falling days and nights present these various scenes to our knowledge. 34. Lílá said:—So it is, O mother of mankind! and so I come to remember now, that my present birth (state) is of a royal (_rájasika_) kind, and neither of too pure nor gross a nature. (_Sattvika or Támasika_). 35. I having descended from Brahmá, had undergone a hundred and eight births (in different shapes); and after passing various states, I find myself still in existence. 36. I recollect, O goddess! to have been born in another world before, and to have been the bride of a Vidyádhara, when I used to rove about as freely as a bee over flowers.