24. Vasishtha said:—In the same manner as Sukra was impressed with the thoughts of the world, from the lectures of his father; so did they remain in his mind, as the future peacock resides in the egg.
25. It is also naturally situated in the embryo of the mind, of every species of living being, and is gradually evolved from it, in the manner of the shoots and sprouts, and leaves and flowers of trees, growing out of the seed.
26. Every body sees in his mind, what its heart desires to possess, as it is in the case of our prolonged dreams.
27. Know it thus, O Ráma! that a partial view of the world, rises in the mind of every body; in the same manner, as it appears in the mind in a dream at night.
28. Ráma said:—But tell me sir, whether the thought and the things thought of, simultaneously meet themselves in the mind of the thinker; or it is the mind only that thinks of the object which is never met with by it.
29. Vasishtha replied:—But the sullied mind cannot easily unite with the object of its thought, as a dirty and cold piece of iron, cannot join with a pure red-hot one, unless it is heated and purified from its dross.
30. The pure mind and its pure thoughts, are readily united with one another, as the pure waters mix together into one body of the same kind, which the muddied water cannot do.
31. Want of desire constitutes the purity of the mind, which is readily united with immaterial things of the same nature like itself. The purity of the mind conduces to its enlightenment, and these being united in one, leads it to the Supreme.
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE INCARNATION OF THE LIVING SPIRIT
Argument. The Impure state of the soul; and its Purity leading to the knowledge of the only One.