49. Do you, O Ráma, remain in that best and blessed state, wherein the wisest, best and holiest of men have found their rest; and it is the constant habit of thinking yourself as nothing nor doing anything; or that you are all things and doing every thing; as the Supreme soul knows itself to be; and that you are some person, having a personality of your own, and yet no body (_i.e._ not the body in which thou dost abide); but a spiritual and transcendent being. CHAPTER LVII. NATURE OF VOLLEITY AND NOLLEITY. Argument. The bondage of volition causing our perdition, and the freedom of Nolition as leading to salvation. Ráma said:—Thy words, O Bráhman! are true and well spoken also. I find the soul to be the inactive agent of actions, and the impassive recipient of their effects, as also the spiritual cause of the corporeal. 2. I find the soul to be the sole lord of all, and ubiquitous in its course; it is of the nature of intelligence and of the form of transparency. It resides in all bodies, as the five elements compose the terraqueous bodies. 3. I now come to understand the nature of Brahma, and I am as pacified by thy speech, as the heated mountain is cooled by rain waters. 4. From its secludedness and nolleity, it neither does nor receives any thing; but its universal pervasion, makes it both the actor and sufferer. 5. But sir, there is a doubt too vivid and rankling in my mind, which I pray you to remove by your enlightened speech, as the moon-beams dispel the darkness of the night. 6. Tell me Sir, whence proceed these dualities, as the reality of one and the unreality of the other, and that this is I and this not myself. And if the soul is one and indivisible, how is this one thing and that another. 7. There being but one self-existent and self-evident soul from the beginning, how comes it to be subjected to these oppositions, as the bright disk of sun comes to be obscured under the clouds. 8. Vasishtha answered:—Ráma! I will give the right answer to this question of yours, as I come to the conclusion; and then you will learn the cause of these biplicities. 9. You will not be able, Ráma! to comprehend my answers to these queries of yours, until you come to be acquainted with my solution of the question of liberation. 10. As it is the adult youth only, who can appreciate the beauty of a love-song; so it is the holy man only, who can grasp the sense of my sayings on these abstruse subjects. 11. Sayings of such great importance, are as fruitless with ignorant people, as a work on erotic subjects is useless to children. 12. There is a time for the seasonableness of every subject to men, as it is the season of autumn which produces the harvest and not the vernal spring. 13. The preaching of a sermon is selectable to old men, as fine colourings are suitable to clean canvas; and so a spiritual discourse of deep sense, suits one who has known the Spirit.