14. As thou dost derive pleasure, O Lord of worlds! in forming the orbs of the sons of Indu, so the lord of gods will give thee thy reward for thy works of creation.
15. The manner in which, O lord, thou seest the worlds with the eyes of thy mind, nobody can see them so conspicuously with their external organs of vision; for who can say by seeing them with his eyes, whether thy are created or increate.
16. He who has created these worlds from his mind, it is he alone that can behold me face to face, and no other person with his open eyes.
17. The ten worlds are not the work of so many Brahmás as it appeared to thee before; and no body has the power to destroy them, when they are seated so firmly in the mind. (It may be easy to destroy all visible objects, but not to efface the impressions of the mind (memory)).
18. It is easy to destroy what is made by the hand, and to shut out the sensible objects from our perception; but who can annul or disregard what is ascertained by the mind.
19. Whatever belief is deep-rooted in the minds of living beings, it is impossible to remove it by any body, except by its owner (by change of his mind or its forgetfulness).
20. Whatever is habituated to confirmed belief in the mind, no curse can remove it from the mind, though it can kill the body.
21. The principle that is deeply rooted in the mind, the same forms the man according to its stamp; it is impossible to make him otherwise by any means, as it is no way possible to fructify a rock by watering at its root like a tree.
CHAPTER LXXXIX.
Story of Indra and Ahalya.
Argument. A Rooted Belief is not to be shaken by others as in the case of Lovers.