been before (1). Hastily she roused her sleeping- attendants
and bade them summon the ministers, and call tog-ether all
the king's court as usual in his lifetime. They came, and she
saw them all alive, and was much pleased. But her perplexity
and wonder grew the greater. ^Unaccountable is this Maya,"
she thought. "Our citizens are there as well as here. ^ And
parks, and groves, and hills, too, are there in the very image
of these I behold here. Even as scenes exist without as well
as within a looking-glass, so it seems creation lies within as
well as without the mirror of Chit. Which of the two Sargas(2)
Is false and which is real ? I shall ask SarasvatT."

And the Goddess of Speech came at her prayer. "0
Mother of the worlds V\ Lila exclaimed on seeing her, "Thou
hast set the laws that guide them ! Why sufferest thou that
I should be in such unrest of mind ? The Great Ones cannot
Bear that the weak, deserving of pity, should suffer pain.
Tell me, then, which of the two worlds, that I have seen and
see, is false, and which is real ?.^

Saras vatt : "Tell me first, my friend !, what thou callest
real and what false."

Lila ; "As -I am sitting here, 0 Goddess !, and Thou art
there, this I think is the real. And that where my husband
now is, that is the false, because it is empty and occupies not
-any time or space."

SarasvatT ; "Thou wouldst say that that world is a fanciful
copy of this ; that this is in some way the cause of that. But
how can a false effect flow from a true cause ? Effects are
not dissimilar to their causes ; and if this world were the
,cause of that, then that would partake of the nature of this."

special significance here, and the commentator follows the other
interpretation. ;.

(1) She ret-arned to her mental and astral, bodies.

(2) Worlds, creations, i ... ; •. , •,