12. I have told you before of the triple nature of the production of beings here below, which I believe, you well remember. 13. Of these the first is that power (Brahmá), who assumed to himself the shape of the Divine Will (Sankalpa), and saw in his presence whatever he wished to produce, and which brought the mundane system into existence. 14. He thought of many changes in his mind, as those of birth and death, of pleasure and pain, of the course of nature and effect of ignorance and the like; and then having ordained them as he willed, he disappeared of himself as snow before the solar light. 15. Thus this god, the personification of Will, rises and sets repeatedly, as he is prompted from time to time by his inward wish. (So does every living being come out of the mould of its internal desire. Or that:—it is the wish, that frames and fashions every body, or the will that moulds the mind). 16. So there are millions of Brahmás born in this mundane egg, and many that have gone by and are yet to come, whose number is innumerable (and who are incarnations of their desires only). 17. So are all living beings in the same predicament with Brahmá, proceeding continually from the entity of God. Now I will tell you the manner in which they live, and are liberated from the bond of life. 18. The mental power of Brahmá issuing from him, rests on the wide expanse of vacuum which is spread before it; then being joined with the essence of ether, becomes solidified in the shape of desire. 19. Then finding the miniature of matter spread out before it, it becomes the quintessence of the quintuple elements. Having assumed afterwards the inward senses, it becomes a suitable elementary body composed of the finest particles of the five elements. It enters into grains and vegetables, which re-enter into the bowels of animals in the form of food. 20. The essence of this food in the form of semen, gives birth to living beings to infinity. 21. The male child betakes himself in his boy-hood, to his tutor for the acquisition of knowledge. 22. The boy next assumes his wondrous form of youth, which next arrives to the state of manhood. 23. The man afterwards learns to choose something for himself, and reject others by the clearsightedness of his internal faculties. 24. The man that is possessed of such right discrimination of good and evil, and of right and wrong, and who is confident of the purity of his own nature, and of his belonging to the best caste (of a Brahmán); attains by degrees the supernatural powers for his own good, as also for the enlightenment of his mind, by means of his knowledge of the seven essential grounds of Yoga meditation. CHAPTER CXVII. DIFFERENT STATES OF KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE.[12] Argument. The septuple grounds of true and false Knowledge and their mixed modes. And firstly, of self-abstraction or abstract knowledge of one or _swarúpa_; and then of the different grounds of Ignorance.