27. The worlds appearing to be _in esse_, or existent in the mind and before the eyes; are in reality utterly inexistent in the intellect, which spreads alike as the all pervading and empty vacuum every where. And as all empty space in every place is alike and same with the infinite vacuity; so the forms of things appearing to the limited understanding, are all lost in the unlimited intellect. 28. Now Vasishtha, go to your place in your own world; and have your peace and bliss in your own seat of _samádhi_-devotion. Consign your aerial worlds to empty air, while I myself to the supreme Brahma do repair. CHAPTER LXXI. DESCRIPTION OF FINAL DISSOLUTION. Argument:—Conduct of Kali age, and Termination of Brahmá’s Creation at the End. Vasishtha added:—So saying, Brahmá—the personified Brahman, sat in his posture of devotion—padmásana, and resumed his intense meditation of the _samádhi_ meditation; and so did his celestial companions also. 2. He fixed his mind on the pause _santa_, which is placed at the end of half syllable _m_—the final letter of the holy mantra of _omkara_; and sat sedate with his steady attention (on the Divine), as an unmoved picture in painting. 3. His concupiscent consort-vásaná or desire, followed his example also; and sat reclined at the end of all her endless wishes, as an empty and formless vacuity. (The devotee must become a nullity, for his union with the unity). 4. When I saw them growing thin for want of their desires, I also reduced myself by means of my meditation, until I found myself as one with all pervading Intellect; in the form of endless vacuity (and perceived every thing that was going on everywhere). 5. I saw that as the desires of Brahmá were drying up in himself, so I found all nature to be fading away, with the contraction of the earth and ocean, together with the diminution of their hills and islands. 6. I saw the trees and plants and all sorts of vegetables, were fading away with the decay of their growth; and all creation seemed to come to its end in a short time. 7. It seemed that the stupendous body of Virát, which contained the whole universe, was sick in every part; and the great earth which was borne in his body, was now falling insensibly into decline and decay. 8. She is now stricken with years, and grown dull and dry without her genial moisture, and is wasting away as a withered tree in the cold season (lit.—in the cold month of Christmas, when the icy breath of winter withers every green). 9. As the insensibility of our hearts, stupifies the members of our bodies; so did the anesthesia of One produce the obtuseness of all things in the world. (The creative power failing, all creation dwindles away).