19. No sooner the god thought that Prahláda should come to his sense, than his sensation came immediately to him at the divine will.
20. The world has no other cause, but the divine spirit; which with the assistance of the causal elements, takes different forms on itself at the time of creation; and therefore it is the spirit of Hari that constitutes the world.
21. The worship of God in spirit, presents Hari to the spiritual sight; and the worship of Hari in his outward form, represents the figure to the soul and the inner mind.
22. Do you, O Ráma! put out the visible sights from your view, and look at the inmost soul within yourself; being thus accustomed to spiritual meditation, you will soon have the sight of your God.
23. The world presents a scene of the gloomy rainy weather, with showers of woes falling on all sides; it is likely to freeze us in ignorance, unless we look to the sun of our reason (or, unless we abide under the sunshine of reason).
24. It is by grace of God that we can avoid the delusions of the world, as we may escape from a goblin by means of a spell.
25. It is at the will of the spirit, that the thick darkness of the mind, is dispersed and cleared off in time; the world is a net-work of delusion, which is scattered like a smoke by the breeze of reason.
CHAPTER XLIII.
REST AND REPOSE OF PRAHLÁDA.
Argument. All knowledge is derived by one’s own attention and personal exertion, joined with his reliance on the grace of God.
Ráma said:—Sir, your knowledge of all truths, and the light of your holy discourses, have gratified me as much, as the cooling moon-beams gratify the medicinal plants (whence the moon is called oshadhísa or lord of medicinal drugs).