the other world by a great miracle, and brought a fair compa-
nion with thee too. Their thoug-ht shall reach no further."

With this the two made themselves visible to the new
Lila. Startled from her reverie by the sudden light that filled
the room, washing" its walls with liquid gold and making it
look as if hewn out of the moon, she saw the glorious forms,
and prostrated herself before them, and then explained that
she had come on in advance of them after her temporary
swoon, had seen her husband sleeping after the fatigue of
the battle, and so had not awakened him.

Sarasvati then permitted the Jiva of Viduratha, whom she
had detained for a while, to enter into the heart of Padma
through the nostrils ; and it entered there, carrying within it
its hundred Vasanas, desires, even as the ocean carries in its
deep heart its treasured gems. And therewith, like a withering
lotus at the touch of the first rain-drops, the body of Padma
revived, the sap of life flowed in the limbs again, and they
shone forth with recovered brilliance and soffeness like new
leaves under the breath of spring. He unclosed his eyes,
beautiful and pure, with starry pupils ; rose, towering like the
Vindhya mountain ; and, sitting up in bed, called "Who is
there ?" in tones sonorous as the distant thunder. The two
Lllas advanced and bent before him. Seeing these two
beautiful images of each other, the king was much astonished
'and enquired what had happened. The elder LTia then
explained : tt! am thy elder queen, 0 husband !, bound unto
thee inseparably as word to meaning ; and I have earned for
thee thy second queen, this younger LTla.(1) And she that
sits on the great throne of gold beside thy couch is tlie

(1) Inia means Play, Pastime. The World-Process is the Self's Play,
Pastime, Drama. To 'know it as Play, is Wisdom, Vidya, the enlightened
Lila; to feel it as real, is error, A-vidya, the younger Iiila. The former
carries the latter. Win G-od, and all things else add themselsaA. \