4. Hence we see the mind and body are as intimately connected with each other, as motion with the air and fluidity with the sesamum seed (because the derangement of the one is attended by the disorganization of the other: _i.e._ of the body and mind). 5. Or that there is no body except it but be a creation of the mind, like the fancied chimeras of visions and dreams, and as the false sight of water in the mirage, or the appearance of two moons in the sky. 6. Or else why is it that the dissolution of the one, brings on the extinction of the other, such as the quietus of the mind is followed by the loss of bodily sensations? 7. Tell me, my lord! how the mind is unaffected by the power of imprecations and menace, which subdue the senses and say whether they are both overpowered by these, being the one and same thing. 8. Brahmá replied:—Know then, there is nothing in the treasure-house of this world, which is unattainable by man by means of his exertions in the right way. 9. And that all species of animal being, from the state of the highest Brahmá, down to minute insects, are _bicorpori_ or endowed with two bodies the mental and corporeal. (_i.e._ The mind and the body). 10. The one, that is the mental body, is ever active and always fickle; and the other is the worthless body of flesh, which is dull and inactive. 11. Now the fleshy part of the body which accompanies all animal beings, is overpowered by the influence of curses and charms, practised by the art of incantation—_abhichára Vidyá_. (Exorcism, the Mumbo Jumbo of the Tantras). 12. The influence of certain supernatural powers stupifies a man, and makes him dull and dumb. Sometimes one is about to droop down insensible, as spell bound persons are deprived of their external senses, and fall down like a drop of water from a lotus-leaf. 13. The mind which is the other part of the body of embodied beings, is ever free and unsubdued; though it is always under the subjection of all living beings in the three worlds. 14. He who can control his mind by continued patience on one hand, and by incessant vigilance on the other, is the man of an unimpeachable character, and unapproachable by calamity. 15. The more a man employs the mental part of his body to its proper employment, the more successful he is in obtaining the object he has in view. (Omnium vincit vigilentia _vel_ diligentia). 16. Mere bodily energy is never successful in any undertaking (any more than brute force); it is intellectual activity only, that is sure of success in all attempts. (The head must guide the body). 17. The attention of the mind being directed to objects unconnected with matter, it is as vain an effort to hurt it (an immaterial object); as it is to pierce a stone with an arrow (or to beat the air).