48. I observe in myself the revolution of years and ages, and of all seasons and times, and I find the very _time_, to be both the creator and destroyer of things. 49. I see a _Kalpa_ passing away before me, and the night of Brahmá (dissolution) stretched out in my presence; while I reside for ever in the Supreme soul, and as full and perfect as the Divine Spirit itself. (Immortality of the human soul and its unity with the Divine). 50. Thus these Bráhmans—the sons of Indu, remained in this sort of meditation, in their motionless postures like fixed rocks, and as images hewn out of stones in a hill. 51. In this manner these Bráhmans continued for a long period in their devotion, being fully acquainted with the nature of Brahmá, and possest of the spirit of that deity in themselves. They sat in their posture of the _padmásana_ on seats of kusa grass, being freed from the snare of the fickle and frivolous desires of this false and frail world. It is evident from this instance of the Bráhmans’ devotion, that it consisted of the contemplation of every thing in the world in the mind of man; like that of the whole universe in the mind of God. It is the subjective view of the objective that forms what is truely meant by yoga meditation and nothing beside. CHAPTER LXXXVII. ANALECTA OF THE CELESTIAL SPHERES. Argument:—The Spiritual body or soul, is not destroyed by destruction of the material Body. The Sol said:—O great father of creation! thus did these venerable Bráhmans, remain at that spot, occupied with these various thoughts (of existence) and their several actions in their minds for a long time. (This sort of yoga meditation is called Sárúpya, or approximation of one to the divine attribute, of thinking on the States and functions of all things in the world in one’s self). 2. They remained in this state (of abstraction), until their bodies were dried up by exposure to the sun and air, and dropped down in time like the withered leaves of trees. (This is called the Samádhi yoga or absorption in meditation, until one’s final extinction or Euthanasia in the Spirit). 3. Their dead bodies were devoured by the voracious beasts of the forest, or tossed about as some ripe fruits by the monkeys on the hills (to be food for greedy vultures and hungry dogs). 4. These Bráhmans, having their thoughts distracted from outward objects, and concentrated in Brahmáhood, continued in the enjoyment of divine felicity in their Spirits, until the close of the kalpa age at the end of the four yugas. (The duration of a day of Brahmá extends over a kalpa age composed of four yugas, followed by his night of _kalpánta_, when he becomes extinct in his death-like sleep, the twin brother of death. _Ho hupnos esti didumos adelphos thanatow_).