22. It is the mind dwelling in the body, that makes it to rise and set, to eat and drink, to walk and go, and to hurt and kill, all which are acts of the mind, and not of the body. 23. As the master of the house does his many acts in it, and not the house itself; so the mind acts its several parts in the body, and not the body by itself. 24. The mind is the active and passive agent of all the actions and passions, and of the pains and pleasures of the body; and it is the mind only that makes the man. 25. Hear me now tell you the useful moral of the story of Lavana; and how he was transformed to a Chandála, by derangement of his mind. 26. The mind has to feel the effects of its actions whether good or evil; and in order that you may understand it well, hear attentively what I will now relate unto you. 27. Lavana who was born of the line of king Harischandra, thought within himself one day, as he was sitting apart from all others of his court. 28. My grand-father was a great king and performed the Rájasúya sacrifice in act; and I, being born of his line, must perform the same in my mind (_i.e._ mentally). 29. Having determined so, and getting the things ready for the sacrifice, he entered the sacrificial hall for his initiation in the sacred rites. 30. He called the sacrificial priests, and honoured the holy saints; he invited the gods to it, and kindled the sacrificial fire. 31. Having performed the sacrifice to his heart’s content, and honoured the gods, sages and Bráhmans; he went to a forest to reside there for a year. 32. Having then made presents of all his wealth to Bráhmans and other men, he awoke from his slumber in the same forest by the evening of that day. 33. Thus the king Lavana attained the merit of the sacrifice, in his internal satisfaction of having attained the meritoriousness of the sacrifice. 34. Hence learn to know the mind to be the recipient of pleasure and pain; therefore employ your attention, Ráma! to the purification of your mind. 35. Every man becomes perfect in his mind in its full time and proper place; but he is utterly lost who believes himself to be composed of his body only. 36. The mind being roused to transcendental reason, all miseries are removed from the rational understanding; just as the beams of the rising sun falling upon the lotus-bud, dispel the darkness that had closely contracted its folded petals. CHAPTER CXVI. BIRTH AND INCARNATION OF ADEPTS IN YOGA. Argument. Production of the Body from the Mind. Ráma asked:—What evidence is there sir, in proof of Lavana’s obtaining the reward of his mental sacrifice of Rájasúya, in his transformation to the state of the Chandála, as it was wrought upon him by the enchantment of the magician? 2. Vasishtha answered:—I was myself present in the court-house of king Lavana, at the time when the magician made his appearance there, and I saw all that took place there with my own eyes.