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hers, and pointed them out to the Goddess one by one. Then
they went back to the house, and LTia, with her now
enlightened eye, saw how the whole of the Padma-world was
situate in a small part of that house-space, and said to the
D4vi : "Let us go back there." Then they returned to that
other Brahmanda,(1) going- through the same long journey
they had come, beholding again the wonders of space and
feeling its endless expanse which, as SarasvatI said, Gods
higher than herself, Vishnu and Hara and others, could not
measure, if they rushed through it all their life long.

Here Rama asked Vasishtha how such remoteness in
space could be at the same time with such nearness ; and
Vasishtha told him to consider how in dreams men with their
bodies lying in one place still wandered over many lands and
seas. And therewith he returned to the story of LTla.

Vasishtha continued :

Returning to the Padma-world, the two saw Lila's Chitta-
body(2) sitting silent by the side of Padma's body resting on
the fragrant flowers amidst the incense-scented air of the
great palace-room. Seeing that body and her own Chitta-
body, LTla thought she would now visit again that other world
to which her husband had gone after leaving his Padma-form.
And with the thought she passed, in her Sankalpa-deha,
(ideation-body), into that world, after piercing through the shells
of that third Brahmanda as before. SarasvatI went with her.

Arriving there within her husband's country, she saw a
great battle impending" between two vast armies, arrayed in a

(1) '"Egg of Brahman, the Infinite*, *orb of space', globe, world.

(2) Ohitta is distinct from Ohit, and the word is used ordinarily for
the mind with its three functions of knowing, desiring, and acting. ItH
practically the Jiva or Soul. • It is never applied to Brahman, as is Ohit.
As Brahman is to Brahma so Ohit is to Ohitta, imiversal to mdividnal