9. Thence they passed through the regions of air and water (Indraloka), to the abodes of the gods and saints (Siddhas); whence they went across the seats of Brahmá, Vishnu and Siva to the great belt—of the universe. 10. Their spiritual bodies pierced through its orifice, as the humidity of ice water passes out of the pores of a tight water-jar. 11. The body of Lílá was of the form of her mind, which was of the nature of its own bent and tenor, and conceived these wanderings within itself (_i.e._, the peregrinations of Lílá were purely the workings of her own mind and inclination). 12. Having traversed the spheres of Brahmá, Vishnu and Siva, and crossed the limit of the mundane sphere, and the environs of atmospheric water and air:— 13. They found an empty space as spacious as the scope of the great intellect, and impassable by the swift Garuda (the eagle of Jupiter) even in millions of Kalpa ages. (_i.e._ The unlimited space of the mind and vacuity). 14. There they beheld an infinity of shapeless and nameless worlds, scattered about as the countless fruits in a great forest. (The Nebulae of unformed worlds). 15. They pierced through the ambit of one of these orbs before them, and passed inside the same as a worm creeps in a fruit which it has perforated. 16. This brought them back by the same spheres of Brahmá, Indra and others, to the orb of the globe below the starry frame. 17. Here they saw the same country, the same city and the same tomb as before; and after entering the same, they sat themselves beside the corpse of Padma covered under the heap of flowers. 18. At this time Lílá lost the sight of the heavenly damsel, who had been her companion erewhile, and who had now disappeared from her sight like a phantom of her illusion. 19. She then looked at the face of her husband, lying there as a dead body in his bed; and recognized him as such by her right discretion. 20. This must be my husband, said she, ay my very husband, who fell fighting with Sindhu, and has now attained this seat of the departed heroes, where he rests in peace. 21. I have by the grace of the goddess arrived here in person, and reckon myself truly blest to find my husband also as such (_i.e._, resting here in his own figure). 22. She then took up a beautiful _chauri_ flapper in her hand, and began to wave it over his body as the moon moves in the sky over the earth. 23. The waking Lílá asked:—Tell me, O goddess! in what manner did the king and his servants and hand-maids accost this lady, and what they thought her to be. 24. The goddess replied:—It was by our gift of wisdom to them, that this lady, that king and those servants, found themselves to partake of the one and same intellectual soul, in which they all subsisted. 25. Every soul is a reflection of the divine intellect, and is destined by his fixed decree to represent the individual souls to one another as refractions of the same, or as shadows in a magic show (bhojakádrishta).