9. It is thus the different views, of the same internal thought and ideas, have different names and appellations, given to them by the very intellect itself; the finer and purer ones being called as thoughts, and the grosser ones, as sensible and material objects. 10. Thus it is the same reflexion of the intellectual, which takes the names both of the dream as also of the world; the working of the mind and its reflexion in itself are natural to intellect, and though the visions subside with the disappearance of the dream upon waking, yet the working and reflecting of the mind are never at rest, either in waking or dreaming. 11. Many such visions of creation rise and set alternately, in the vacuity of Brahma’s mind, and are never apart from it; just as the empty air is either in motion or at rest in the hollow of the great void, and always inseparable from it. (Hence the air, vision, dream &c., are all void, and the world is but a phantom in it). 12. Ráma said:--Sir, you have spoken of millions of worlds to me before; tell me now which of them are situated within the sphere of the mundane egg, and which of them are beyond this egg (or supermundane ones). 13. Which of them are the terrestrial globes and which the vacuous spheres; which of them are igneous bodies in the sphere of fire, and what are the airy bodies in the regions of air. 14. Which are the superfices of the earth, situated in the midst of vacuity; of which the hills and forests set at the antipodes, are opposed to one another on both sides, and hang up and down perpendicular in empty air. 15. Which are the aerial bodies with their living souls, and which the inhabitants of darkness with their darksome shapes; what are they that are formed of vacuum only, and what can they be, whose bodies are full of worms and insects. 16. What sorts of beings settle the etherial sphere, and what are they that live in the midst of rocks and stones; what are they that dwell in the vessels and basins of water, and what be they that people the air like the aerial fowls of air. 17. Tell me, O thou greatest of philosophers, how this mundane egg of ours is situated among them. (These are questions of cosmogony, and bear no relation to theology). 18. Vasishtha replied:--These wondrous unknown, unseen and unheard of worlds, are mentioned and described in the sástras with their exemplifications also; and they have been received and believed as true by their students. 19. Ráma, the cosmology of the world, has been described--given by gods and sages, in hundreds of their sástras called the _Ágamas_; all of which you are well acquainted with. 20. Now as you are well acquainted with the descriptions, that are given of them in the sástras; it is not necessary to relate them again in this place. (The cosmology of the world has been given before in the narrative of Lílá).