SarasvaK ; ^It shall be as thou wishest. Thou shalt go
again to the Raima-world and animate again the body of
? Padma. But before this happens thou hast to die, warring
against thy present enemy. The way is not the same for all."

And even as they were so talking, there entered at one
side, hurried messengers reporting that the enemy had broken
into the capital, and at another came the youthful queen of
Vidu-ratha, full of tears and terror, trembling in every
beautiful limb and saying that the antah"pura(1) 'was also
being attacked from behind.

Hearing these things the king arose in haste and said to
the two Devis, "With your leave I will now go out to do
battle with the enemy. This is my wife. May she remain
near to your holy feet." And saying this, the king went out
of the palace with flaming eyes like those of an angered lion.

Lila then noticed that the new-come queen was the very
image of herself ^in outer appearance, and eagerly, she turned
to SarasvatI and questioned. ^How is this, 0 Devi ? How is
^ there this double of myself ? How also are the ministers and
many of the prominent citizens and warriors the same as in
the Padma-world ? How can these be in two places at the
same time ?"

Sarasvati : "The consciousness, Jnapti, realises its own
objects. Chiti[2) takes on the form of its objects even as
Chifcta(3) takes on the form of its objects. Dreams are the apt
example. Thy husband has attained here in this world the
objects bearing which in mind he died in the Padma-world.
Dreams are very real to the dreamer. They are all unreal to
him when he wakes. So may the waking world be real and
unreal. Such is the law of Pratibha—Imagination—which is

(1) The inner, or women's apartments.
r< (2) The higher consciousness ; a syaonymn of Chit.

(S) The desire mincL i