5. At the end of the kalpa, there is an utter extinction of the solar light, by the incessant rains poured down by the heavy Pushkara and Avartaka clouds at the great deluge (when the doors of heaven were laid open to rain in floods on earth. Genesis). 6. When the hurricane of desolation blew on all sides, and buried all beings under the Universal ocean (which covered the face of the earth). 7. It was then thy dark night, and the previous creation slept as in their yoga-_nidrá_ or hypnotic trance in thy sleeping self. Thus thou continuing in thy spirit, didst contain all things in thee in their spiritual forms. (Darkness reigned on the deep, and the spirit of God viewed everything in itself). 8. Upon thy waking this day with thy desire of creation, all these things are exhibited to thy view, as a copy of all that was in thy inmost mind or Spirit already. (So it is upon our waking from sleep, we come to see a _fac-simile_ of all that lay dormant in the sleeping mind). 9. I have thus related to you O Brahmá! how these ten Bráhmans were personified as so many Brahmás; these have become the ten bright orbs situated in the vacuous sphere of thy mind. (An English poet has expressed the holy soul to appear as a luminary in heaven). 10. I am the one eldest among them, consecrated in this temple of the sky, and appointed by thee, O lord of all! to regulate the portions of time on earthly beings. 11. Now I have given you a full account of the ten orbs of heaven, which are no other than the ten persons united in the mind of Brahmá, and now appearing as detached from him. (Mentally viewed, everything is found situated in the mind, but when seen with open eyes, it seems to be set apart from us. Have therefore your thoughts or your sights as you may choose). 12. This beautiful world that you behold, appearing to your view, with all its wonderful structures, spread out in the skies, serves at best as a snare to entrap your senses, and delude your understanding, by taking the unrealities as realities in your mind. (Brahmá the Demiurgus, being but architect of the world, and a person next to or an emanation of the mind of God, had not the intelligence of the soul, to discern the innate ideas, which represented themselves in the outer creation). CHAPTER LXXXVIII. INDIFFERENCE OF BRAHMÁ. Argument.—That God expects nothing from his creation. Brahmá said:—O Bráhman! that art the best of Bráhmists (Bráhmos), the God Sol having thus spoken of the ten Bráhmanas to Bráhma (me), held his silence. (Here is a tautology of the word Bráhman in the fashion of metaphysicians in its several homonymous significations. This is an address of Brahmá to Vasishtha—the Bráhman and Brahmist, relating the Bráhmanas).