44. The phenomenal world has no existence, and all that is visible, is the manifestation of the Divine Intellect, which is ever lasting and imperishable. 45. This will I explain to you afterwards in a hundred different ways, and it is my main purpose to do so; but hear me now tell you what appertains to the matter under consideration. 46. They having got in that house, saw its inside beautifully decorated with chaplets of flowers as fresh as those of the spring season. 47. The inmates of the palace were quietly employed in their duties, and the corpse of the king was placed upon a bed of _mandara_ and _kunda_ flowers. 48. The sheet over the dead body, was also strewn over with wreaths of the same flowers; and there were the auspicious pots of water placed by the bed side. 49. The doors of the room were closed, and the windows were shut fast with their latchets; the lamps cast a dim light on the white washed walls around, and the corpse was lying as a man in sleep, with the suppressed breathing of his mouth and nostrils. 50. There was the full bright moon, shining with her delightsome lustre, and the beauty of the palace, put to blush the paradise of Indra; it was as charming as the pericarp of the lotus of Brahmá’s birthplace, and it was as silent as dumbness or a dummy itself, and as beautiful as the fair moon in her fulness. CHAPTER LVII. PHENOMENA OF DREAMING. Argument. Unsubstantiality _of the aerial_ body of Lílá and the Spiritual bodies of Yogis. Vasishtha continued:—They beheld there the younger Lílá of Vidúratha, who had arrived there after her demise, and before the death of that king. 2. She was in her former habit and mode with the same body, and the same tone and tenor of her mind; she was also as beautiful in all her features, as in her former graceful form and figure when living. 3. She was the same in every part of her body, and wore the same apparel as before. She had the very ornaments on her person, with the difference that it was sitting quietly in the same place, and not moving about as before. 4. She kept flapping her pretty fan (chouri), over the corpse of the king; and was gracing the ground below, like the rising moon brightening the skies above. 5. She sat quiet, reclining her moonlike face on the palm of her left hand; and decorated with shining gems, she appeared as a bed of flowers, with new-blown blossoms on it. 6. With the glances of her beautiful eyes, she shed showers of flowers on all sides; and the brightness of her person, beamed with the beams of the etherial moon. 7. She seemed to have approached to the lord of men, like the goddess Lakshmí, appearing before the god Vishnu; and with the heaps of flowers before her, she seemed as Flora or the vernal season in person.