19. I cannot describe in words the most eminent state of divine seer, whose soul is fraught with divine knowledge, whose mind is quite at rest, and whose knowledge of duality is wholly extinct. 20. Know, O most intelligent Ráma, that the Great Lord God is pleased to bless him with the bliss of his final extinction in him; in reward of his serving him by day and night with sincere devotion. 21. Ráma rejoined:—Tell me, O chief of sages, who is this Lord God, and how He is propitiated by our prayers and faith in him; explain this mystery to me, for you are acquainted with all truth. 22. Vasishtha replied:—Know, O highly intelligent Ráma, that the Lord God is neither at a distance nor unattainable by us; the Lord is the all knowing soul, and the soul is the great God. 23. In Him are all things, and from him have come all these; He is all, and everywhere with all; He is immanent in and self same with all, he is everlasting and I bow down to him. 24. From him comes out this creation, as well as all its change and dissolution; He is the uncaused cause of all, which rise as winds in the hollow vault of heaven. 25. Him do all these creatures—the moving as well as unmoving, worship always (in their hearts), as well as they can; and present them the best offerings that they can find. 26. So men by adoring him in their repeated births, with all their hearts and minds and in the best manner that they can; propitiate at last the supreme object of their adoration. 27. The great Lord God and Supreme soul, being thus propitiated by their firm faith; sends to them at last his messenger (or angel), with his good will for their enlightenment. 28. Ráma asked:—Tell me, great sage, how does the lord God and supreme soul, send his messenger to man; and who is this messenger, and in what manner he throws the light in the mind. 29. Vasishtha replied:—The messenger sent by the divine spirit, is known by the name of wise discrimination, which shines as coolly in the cell of the human heart, as the moonlight does in the clear firmament. 30. It is this which awakens and instructs, the brutish and cupidinous soul to wisdom, and by this means saves the unwise soul, from the turbulent ocean of this world. 31. This enlightening and intellectual spirit, residing in the human heart; is denominated as the _pranava_ or adorable, in the Veda and Vedic sástras. 32. This holy spirit is propitiated daily, by men and the serpent tribe, and by gods and demigods also; by their prayers and oblations, by their austerities and almsgivings, as also by their sacrificial rites and recitals of the scriptures. 33. This Lord has the highest heaven for his crown, and the earth and infernal regions for his footstools; the stars glisten as hairs on his person; his heart is the open space of the sky, and all material bodies, are as the bones of his body.