CHAPTER LXXXVII. Terms. The One in various Term 1159 CHAPTER LXXXVIII. A discourse on yoga meditation 1165 CHAPTER LXXXIX. A Lecture on Rationalistic meditation 1165 CHAPTER LXXXX. Admonition on the mind and its yoga meditation 1173 CHAPTER LXXXXI. On the origin of the Human body and consciousness 1177 CHAPTER LXXXXII. Means of obtaining the divine presence 1191 CHAPTER LXXXXIII. Universal Indifference or Insouciance 1198 CHAPTER LIV. QUIESCENCE OF UDDÁLAKA. Argument. Uddálaka meditates on the form of Vishnu, and his quietus in and coalescence with it. Vasishtha continued:—Thinking himself to be raised to this state of his transcendency, the saint sat in his posture of _padmásana_ with his half shut eye-lids, and began to meditate in his translucent mind. 2. He then thought that the syllable _Om_, is the true emblem of Brahma; and he rises to the highest state, who utters this monosyllabic word. 3. Then he uttered the word with an elevated voice and high note, which rang with a resonance like the ringing of a bell. 4. The utterance of his _Omkára_, shook the seat of his intellect in the cranium; and reached to the seat of the pure soul, in the topmost part of his head. 5. The _pranava_ or _Omkára_, consisting of three and half _matrás_ or instants, fills the whole body with the breath of inspiration; by having its first part or the letter _a_, uttered with an acute accent (Udátta). 6. He let out the _rechaka_ or the exhaling breath, whereby the internal air was extracted from the whole body; and it became as empty as the sea, after it was sucked up by Agastya. 7. His vital breath was filled with the sap of the intellect, and rested in the outer air by leaving his body; as when a bird leaves its snug nest; and then mounts to and floats in the open air. 8. The burning fire of his heart, burnt away his whole body; and left it as dry as a forest, scorched by the hot wind of a conflagration. 9. As he was in this state at the first step of his practice of Yoga, by the _pranava_ or utterance of this syllable _Om_; he did not attend to the _hatha_ Yoga at all, on account of its arduousness at first. 10. He then attended to the other parts of the mystic syllable, and remained unshaken by suppression of his breath by the _kumbhaka_ breathing. 11. His vital breaths were not suffered to pass out of his body, nor were they allowed to circulate up and down in it; but were shut up in the nostrils, like the water pent up in the drain. 12. The fire burning before burnt body, was blown out in a moment like the flash of lightning; and he left his whole frame consumed to ashes, and lying cold and grey on the naked ground.