18. It is not known since when they have been in existence, and what numbers of them have gone by, and are remaining at the present time.
19. They have been rolling without beginning like the billows of the sea; those that are past and gone had their previous ones, and they their prior ones also.
20. They rise over and over, to sink lower and lower again; just as the waves of the sea, rising aloft and falling low by turns.
21. There are series of mundane worlds like the egg of Brahmá, which pass away by thousands like the hours in course of the year.
22. There are many such bodies revolving at present, in the spacious mind of Brahma; beside the mundane system of Brahmá (Brahmánda).
23. There will grow many more mundane worlds in the infinity of the divine mind, and they will also vanish away in course of time, like the evanescent sounds in the air. (The sounds are never lost, but remain in the air. Sabdonityam).
24. Other worlds will come into existence in the course of other creations, as the pots come to be formed of clay, and the leaves grow from germs in endless succession. (Here Brahma is made the material cause of all).
25. So long doth the glory of the three worlds appear to the sight, as long as it is not seen in the intellect, in the manner as it exists in the divine mind.
26. The rising and falling of worlds are neither true nor wholly false; they are as the fanfaronade of fools, and as orchids of the air.
27. All things are of the manner of sea waves, which vanish no sooner than they appear to view, and they are all of the nature of paintings, which are impressed in the mind.