Then the wish arose in the mind of Lila : "May^ these
folks, so full of sorrow, see the Goddess and myself wearing"
the ordinary shape of women." And forthwith it was so, and
the people of the house thought that they beheld before them
Lakshmi and Gaun, the Goddesses of Wealth and Health; and,
headed by Jyeshtha, the eldest son of the dead brahmana,
they bent before them and laid flowers at their feet. The two-
then questioned them why they were all so sad, and Jyeshtha
answered : ^My parents, who were the heads of this house,
have just been taken away by death, and therefore are we sad,
and not we only^ but the whole village, so good were they to all.
Even the creepers in the surrounding" woods are restless in
their sorrow and make gestures of pain with their leafy hands,
and the rivulets of the neighbouring hills fling themselves from
heights to^the rocks below and shatter themselves into a
hundred fragments, all for the bitterness of their great loss.
Do ye something to relieve our sorrow. Vision of the great
Ones should not go in vain."

Lila touched the son on the head with the palm of her
hand and a great peace came over him. The other members
of that household, too, forgot their trouble in the joy of seein<>'
these two heavenly forms, and cheerfulness came back once
more to that desolate home.

The two then vanished from their view ; and Sarasvati asked
the wondering Lila; ^What more wishest thou toseeandknow?'*

And Lila asked : "Why could I not be seen by the people
of that world wherein^ my husband < dwells after the death of
his Padma-body ?"

Sarasvafci answered : ^Because thou wert not then as yet
a Satya-Sankalpa(1), which condition is attained only by

(1) A state of consciousness in -which things are seen as they are, in
their tme nature* Eityxnologically, 'one whose ideation becomes realy
imagination true*, ^hose thought becomes realised^