36. It is from the desire of her heart, that she deems herself the spouse of Brahmá; and it is for that reason that she has undergone troubles, before she got rid of her desires. Chapter LXX. THE WORDS OF THE CREATOR OF WORLDS IN THE MUNDANE STONE. Argument:—Relation of the desire of the Divine of Divinity as the cause of her sorrow. The Bráhmana related:—Now as the world is approaching to its end, and I am going to take my rest in the formless void of the intellect (after dissolution of the material world); it is for this reason that this divinity of worldly desires, is drowned in deep sorrow. 2. And as I am about to forsake her forever, it is for this very reason, O sage, that she is so very sorry and sick at her heart. 3. Being myself of an aerial form, when I become one with the supreme spirit (after my leaving the mental sphere); then there takes place the great dissolution of the world with the end of all my desire. 4. Hence she with deep sorrow pursues my way, for who is there so senseless, that does not follow after the giver of her being. 5. Now the time is come for the termination of the Kaliyuga, and of the rotation of the four ages; and the dissolution of all living beings, Manus, Indras, and the Gods, is near at hand. 6. Today is the end of the kalpa and great kalpa age, and this day puts an end to my energy and will, and makes me mix with the eternal and infinite vacuity. 7. It is now that this personification of my desire, is about to breathe her last; just as the lake of lotuses being dried, the breath of lotus flowers also is lost in the air. 8. The quiet soul like the calm ocean, is always at a state of rest; unless it is agitated by its fickle desires, as the sea is troubled by its fluctuating waves. 9. The embodied being (which is confined in the prisonhouse of the human body), has naturally a desire to know the soul, and to <be> freed from its dungeon. 10. Thus this lady being fraught with spiritual knowledge, and long practiced in yoga meditation; has seen the world you inhabit, and the four different states of its inhabitants. (The gloss explains the four states to mean the four different pursuits of men expressed by _Dharma_, _Artha_, _Káma_, _Moksha_). 11. She traversing through the regions of air, has come to the sight of the aforesaid etherial stone above the polar mountain, which is our celestial abode and the pattern of your world. 12. Both that world of yours and this abode of ours, rest on a great mountain, which bears upon it many other worlds (invisible to the naked eye). 13. We also do not see them with our discriminating eye sight, of discerning them separately from one another; but we behold them all commingled in one, in our abstract view of yoga meditation (_i.e._ The sight of particulars is lost in their abstract meditation).