16. He who has created these worlds from his mind, it is he alone that can behold me face to face, and no other person with his open eyes. 17. The ten worlds are not the work of so many Brahmás as it appeared to thee before; and no body has the power to destroy them, when they are seated so firmly in the mind. (It may be easy to destroy all visible objects, but not to efface the impressions of the mind (memory)). 18. It is easy to destroy what is made by the hand, and to shut out the sensible objects from our perception; but who can annul or disregard what is ascertained by the mind. 19. Whatever belief is deep-rooted in the minds of living beings, it is impossible to remove it by any body, except by its owner (by change of his mind or its forgetfulness). 20. Whatever is habituated to confirmed belief in the mind, no curse can remove it from the mind, though it can kill the body. 21. The principle that is deeply rooted in the mind, the same forms the man according to its stamp; it is impossible to make him otherwise by any means, as it is no way possible to fructify a rock by watering at its root like a tree. CHAPTER LXXXIX. STORY OF INDRA AND AHALYA. Argument. A Rooted Belief is not to be shaken by others as in the case of Lovers. The Sol said:—The mind is the maker and master of the world; the mind is the first supreme Male: Whatever is done by the Mind (intentionally), is said to be done; the actions of the body are held as no acts. 2. Look at the capacity of the mind in the instance of the sons of Indu; who being but ordinary Bráhmans, became assimilated to Brahmá, by their meditation of him in their minds. 3. One thinking himself as composed of the body (_i.e._ a corporeal being), becomes subject to all the accidents of corporeality: But he who knows himself as bodiless (an incorporeal being), is freed from all evils which are accidental to the body. 4. By looking on the outside, we are subjected to the feelings of pain and pleasure; but the inward-sighted yogi, is unconscious of the pain or pleasure of his body. (Lit. of what is pleasant or unpleasant to the body). 5. It is thus the mind that causes all our errors in this world, as it is evidenced in the instance of Indra and his consort Ahalyá (related in the ancient legends). 6. Brahmá said:—Tell me, my Lord Sol, who was this Indra, and who that Ahalyá, by the hearing of which my understanding may have its clear-sightedness. 7. The sun said:—It is related my lord! that there reigned in former times a king at Magadha (Behar), Indra-dyumna by name, and alike his namesake (in prowess and fame). 8. He had a wife fair as the orb of moon, with her eyes as beautiful as lotuses. Her name was Ahalyá and she resembled Rohiní—the favourite of moon. 9. In that city there lived a palliard at the head of all the rakes; he was the intriguant son of a Bráhman, and was known by the same name of Indra.