The Sol said:—The mind is the maker and master of the world; the mind is the first supreme Male: Whatever is done by the Mind (intentionally), is said to be done; the actions of the body are held as no acts.
2. Look at the capacity of the mind in the instance of the sons of Indu; who being but ordinary Bráhmans, became assimilated to Brahmá, by their meditation of him in their minds.
3. One thinking himself as composed of the body (i.e. a corporeal being), becomes subject to all the accidents of corporeality: But he who knows himself as bodiless (an incorporeal being), is freed from all evils which are accidental to the body.
4. By looking on the outside, we are subjected to the feelings of pain and pleasure; but the inward-sighted yogi, is unconscious of the pain or pleasure of his body. (Lit. of what is pleasant or unpleasant to the body).
5. It is thus the mind that causes all our errors in this world, as it is evidenced in the instance of Indra and his consort Ahalyá (related in the ancient legends).
6. Brahmá said:—Tell me, my Lord Sol, who was this Indra, and who that Ahalyá, by the hearing of which my understanding may have its clear-sightedness.
7. The sun said:—It is related my lord! that there reigned in former times a king at Magadha (Behar), Indra-dyumna by name, and alike his namesake (in prowess and fame).
8. He had a wife fair as the orb of moon, with her eyes as beautiful as lotuses. Her name was Ahalyá and she resembled Rohiní—the favourite of moon.
9. In that city there lived a palliard at the head of all the rakes; he was the intriguant son of a Bráhman, and was known by the same name of Indra.
10. Now this queen Ahalyá came to hear the tale of the former Ahalyá wife of Gotama, and her concupiscence related to her at a certain time.