75. Should you, like the Nominalist, take everything which bears a name for a real entity; I will tell you no more than that, you are too fond to give to imaginary things a fictitious name at your own will. (Gloss:—according to the ideas and desires of one’s own mind, or giving a name to airy nothing). 76. But the soul is indivisible and without its desire and egoism, and whether it is a real substance or not we know nothing of, yet its agency is acknowledged on all hands in our bodily actions. 77. All joy be thine! that art boundless in thy spiritual body, and ever disposed to tranquility; that art beyond the knowledge of the Vedas, and art yet the theme of all the sástras. 78. All joy to thee! that art both born and unborn with the body, and art decaying undecayed in thy nature; that art the unsubstantial substance of all qualities, and art known and unknown to every body. 79. I exult now and am calm again, I move and am still afterwards; I am victorious and live to win my liberation by thy grace; therefore I hail thee that art myself. 80. When thou art situated in me, my soul is freed from all troubles and feelings and passions; and is placed in perfect rest. There is no more any fear of danger or difficulty or of life and death, nor any craving for prosperity, when I am absorbed in everlasting bliss with thee. CHAPTER XXXVII. DISORDER AND DISQUIET OF THE ASURA REALM. Argument. As Prahláda was absorbed in Meditation, his dominions were infested by robbers for want of a Ruler, and the reign of terror. Vasishtha said:—Prahláda the defeater of inimical hosts, was sitting in the said manner in divine meditation, and was absorbed in his entranced rapture, and undisturbed _anaesthesia_ or insensibility for a long time. 2. The soul reposing in its original state of unalterable _ecstatis_, made his body as immovable as a rock in painting or a figure carved on a stone (_in bas relief_). 3. In this manner a long time passed upon his hybernation, when he was sitting in his house in a posture as unshaken as the firm Meru is fixed upon the earth. 4. He was tried to be roused in vain, by the great Asuras of his palace; because his deadened mind remained deaf to their calls like a solid rock, and was as impassive as a perched grain to the showers of rain. 5. Thus he remained intent upon his God, with his fixed and firm gaze for thousands of years; and continued as unmoved, as the carved sun upon a stone (or sundial). 6. Having thus attained to the state of supreme bliss, the sight of infelicity disappeared from his view, as it is unknown to the supremely felicitous being. (So the Sruti: In Him there is all joy and no woe can appear before Him). 7. During this time the whole circuit of his realm, was overspread by anarchy and oppression; as it reigns over the poor fishes.[20]