4. These were as innumerable bubbles, floating on the waters of the unlimited ocean of the sphere of the Intellect.
5. Some of them were going downward, and others rising upward; some turning round, and others appeared to their understanding to remain fixed and immovable.
6. These different motions appeared to them with respect to their own situations, as they saw them in their different sides.
7. Here there were no ups and downs and no upside or below, nor any going forward or backward. Here there are no such directions as men take to be by the position of their bodies.
8. There is but one indefinite space in nature, as there is but one consciousness in all beings; yet everything moves in its own way, as wayward boys take their own course.
9. Ráma said:—Tell me sir, why do we call upward and downward, forward and backward, if there are no such things in space and nature.
10. Vasishtha said:—There is but one space enveloping all things, and the worlds which are seen in the infinite and indiscernible womb of vacuity, are as worms moving on the surface of water.
11. All these bodies that move about in the world by their want of freedom (i.e. by the power of attraction), are thought to be up and down by our position on earth.
12. So when there is a number of ants on an earthen ball, all its sides are reckoned below which are under their feet, and those as above which are over their backs.
13. Such is this ball of the earth in one of these worlds, covered by vegetables and animals moving on it, and by devas, demons and men walking upon it.