26. As there are no kolpa and great kalpa ages in eternity, nor the substantiality of anything in the vacuity of our consciousness; and as there is no difference of the waves and bubbles from the waters of the sea (So there is no difference of the empty thoughts from the vacuous mind; whence they take their rise).
27. The worlds appearing to be in esse, or existent in the mind and before the eyes; are in reality utterly inexistent in the intellect, which spreads alike as the all pervading and empty vacuum every where. And as all empty space in every place is alike and same with the infinite vacuity; so the forms of things appearing to the limited understanding, are all lost in the unlimited intellect.
28. Now Vasishtha, go to your place in your own world; and have your peace and bliss in your own seat of samádhi-devotion. Consign your aerial worlds to empty air, while I myself to the supreme Brahma do repair.
CHAPTER LXXI.
Description of Final Dissolution.
Argument:—Conduct of Kali age, and Termination of Brahmá’s Creation at the End.
Vasishtha added:—So saying, Brahmá—the personified Brahman, sat in his posture of devotion—padmásana, and resumed his intense meditation of the samádhi meditation; and so did his celestial companions also.
2. He fixed his mind on the pause santa, which is placed at the end of half syllable m—the final letter of the holy mantra of omkara; and sat sedate with his steady attention (on the Divine), as an unmoved picture in painting.
3. His concupiscent consort-vásaná or desire, followed his example also; and sat reclined at the end of all her endless wishes, as an empty and formless vacuity. (The devotee must become a nullity, for his union with the unity).
4. When I saw them growing thin for want of their desires, I also reduced myself by means of my meditation, until I found myself as one with all pervading Intellect; in the form of endless vacuity (and perceived every thing that was going on everywhere).
5. I saw that as the desires of Brahmá were drying up in himself, so I found all nature to be fading away, with the contraction of the earth and ocean, together with the diminution of their hills and islands.