23. O great sage! I will now go to my own body (from out of the body of this person), in order to see what I may be doing there. 24. Hearing this, that great sage said smilingly to me, Ah! where are those bodies of you two; that are blown away afar in their ashes. 25. You may go there yourself if you please, and see the matter yourself; and by seeing their present state, you will know every thing relating to them. 26. Being thus advised by him, I thought on entering my former body. 27. I told him, do you remain here, O sage, until I come back to this place, after seeing my former body; so saying I became a breath of air, and fled from my abode. 28. Then mounting on the car of wind, I wandered through the air, and was wafted to a hundred ways like the odour of a flower, carried rapidly all about by the odoriferous breezes for a long time. 29. Roving long in this manner, I sought to enter that body, by the passage of its lungs; but finding neither that or any other passage, I kept floating in the air. 30. Then with deep felt sorrow, I returned to my place, and became tied again to that stake of the world, by my returning affections to it. 31. Here I saw that venerable sage sitting before me, and asked him intensely in the following manner in my house in this place. 32. Tell me sir, said I, for thou knowest all the past and future; and knowest what all this is, by means of thy all seeing sight. 33. How was it that the person in whose body I had entered, as also my own body likewise, could neither of them be found anywhere. 34. I then wandered throughout the vast expanse of the sphere of this earth, and searched amidst all fixed and living bodies herein, but could not find that opening of the throat from which I had come out. 35. Being thus addressed by me, that high minded _muni_ or sage then said unto me; it is not possible for thee with thy bright and brilliant eyes to find it out unaided by my advice. 36. If you should search after it with the light of thy yoga meditation, it is then possible for thee to find it out as fully, as one sees a lotus placed in his palm. 37. Now therefore if you wish to listen to my words, then attend to my advice, and I will tell thee all about it. 38. Know then that as it is the sunlight that expands the lotus blossoms in the lake, so it is the enlightening beams of Brahmá only that developes the lotus of understanding, and that you can know nothing of yourself. 39. Know then that as you sat once in your devotion, you dreamt in your reverie, of entering into the heart of another person, and were confirmed in your consciousness of that belief. 40. The heart wherein you thought to have entered, you believed to have seen the three worlds therein; and the great sphere of heaven and earth contained in its bosom.