51. This body of mine is of the like kind, and I will not lay it aside, but find out that place by means of this as the breeze finds the odours.
52. And as water mixes with water, fire with fire and air with air, so does this spiritual body easily join with any material form that it likes.
53. But a corporeal body cannot mix with an incorporeal substance, nor a solid rock become the same with an ideal hill.
54. And as your body, which is composed both of its spiritual and mental parts, has become corporeal by its habitual tendency to corporeality.
55. So your material body becomes spiritual (átiváhika), by means of your leaning to spirituality, as in your sleep, in your protracted meditation, insensibility, fancies and reveries.
56. Your spiritual nature will then return to your body, when your earthly desires are lessened and curbed within the mind.
57. Lílá said:—Say goddess, what becomes of the spiritual body after it has attained its compactness by constant practice of yoga; whether it becomes indestructible, or perishes like all other finite bodies.
58. The goddess replied:—Any thing that exists is perishable, and of course liable to death; but how can that thing die which is nothing, and is imperishable in its nature? (Such is the spirit).
59. Again the fallacy of the snake in a rope being removed, the snake disappears of itself, and no one doubts of it any more.
60. Thus, as the true knowledge of the rope, removes the erroneous conception of the snake in it, so the recognition of the spiritual body, dispels the misconception of its materiality.