20. Ráma asked:—How was it Sir, that they entered into the abode adjoining to the tomb, and how could they find out the way to it, the one having been dead a long time, and all three being but bodiless vacuity? 21. Vasishtha replied:—The tomb of the dead body of the prince, being impressed in his soul, and the object of its desire, led his spirit insensibly to it, as if it were by its inborn instinct. 22. Who does not know, that the endless desires which are sown in the human breast, like the countless seeds of a fig fruit, come of their own nature, to grow up to big trees in their time? 23. Just as the living body bears its seed—the subtile or _linga deha_ in the heart, which germinates and grows to a tree at last; so every particle of the intellect, bears the mundane seed in itself. (The cosmos is contained in every individual soul). 24. As a man placed in one country, sees within himself his house, which is situated in a far distant land, so the soul sees the objects of his distant desires, ever present before it. 25. The living soul, ever longs after the best object of its desire; though it may undergo a hundred births, and become subject to the errors and delusions of his senses, and of this illusive world. (For whatever is born in the root, must come out in the seed; and that which is bred in the bones, must appear in the flesh). 26. Ráma rejoined:—There are many persons, that are free from their desire of receiving the funeral cake: now tell me, sir, what becomes of those souls, who get no cake offering at their Srádh. 27. Vasishtha replied:—The man having the desire of receiving the mess settled in his heart, and thinking it to be offered to him; is surely benefitted by its offering. (The funeral cake like every other food, is said to nourish the spirit, and cause its resuscitation in a new life and body). 28. Whatever is in the heart and mind, the same notions form the nature of living beings; and whether these are in their corporeal or incorporeal states, they think themselves as such beings and no other. (The sense of personal identity accompanies the soul everywhere). 29. The thought of having received the _pinda_ cake, makes a man _sapinda_, though it is not actually offered to him; so on the other hand the thought of not being served with the cake, makes a _sapinda_ become a _nispinda_ (or one served with it becomes as one without it). 30. It is verily the desire of all living beings to be such and such as they have in their hearts, and that is the cause of their becoming so in reality. (Gloss. The ordinance of the necessity of cake offering, fosters its desire in the hearts of men. Or, which is the same thing, the desire of receiving the funeral cake, is fostered in the hearts of men, by the ordinance of Srádh).