34. It is inside that house that you see the appearances of your other abodes present before you: and it was in that Bráhmana’s house, that you devoted your life to my worship.
35. It is the shrine within the very house and on the same spot, that contains the whole world which you are seeing all about you.
36. This abode of yours is situated in the same place, and within the clear firmament of your mind.
37. It is a false notion of your mind, which you have gained by your habitual mode of thinking, that you are born in your present state, of the race of Ixáku.
38. It is mere imagination, which has made you to suppose yourself to be named so and so, and that such and such persons were your progenitors, and that you had been a boy of ten years.
39. That your father became an ascetic in the woods, and left you in the government of the realm. And that you have subjugated many countries under your dominion, and are now reigning as the lord paramount over them.
40. And that you are ruling on earth with these ministers and officers of yours, and are observant of the sacrificial rites, and a just ruler of your subjects.
41. You think that you have passed seventy years of your life, and that you are now beset by very formidable enemies.
42. And that having waged a furious battle, you have returned to this abode of yours, where you are now seated and intend to adore the goddesses, that have become your guests herein.
43. You are thinking that these goddesses will bless you with your desired object, because one of them has given you the power of recollecting the events of your former births.