CHAPTER LXXIX.
Maintenance of Inappetency or Want of Desire.
Argument:—Nirvána-Extinction Compared with Waking from the Dream of Existence.
Vasishtha resumed:—Seeing the end of all I still retained my seat in infinite vacuity; and my eyes were detained by the sight of a glorious light, shining as the morning rays of the rising luminary of the day.
2. While I was looking at that light, I beheld the great Brahmá sitting as a statue carved in stone, intent upon his meditation of supreme One, and beset by his transcendent glory all about him.
3. I saw there a multitude of gods, sages and holy personages, with Vrihaspati and Sukra—the preceptors of gods and demigods, together with the regent deities of wealth and death.
4. There were likewise the regent divinities of water, fire and the other deities also; so were there companies of rishis and siddhas and sádhyas, gandharvas and others.
5. All these were as figures in painting, and all sitting in their meditative mood; they all sat in their lotiform posture, and appeared as lifeless and immovable bodies.
6. Then the twelve ádityas or suns (of the twelve signs), met at the same centre (with the same object in their view); and they sat in the same lotiform posture (of devotion, as the other deities).
7. Then awhile after, I beheld the lotus born Brahmá; as if I came to see the object of my dream before me after my waking.
8. I then lost the sight of the deities, assembled in the Brahma-loka or in the world of Brahmá, as when great minded men, lose the sight of the most prominent objects of their desire from their minds. Nor did I perceive the aerial city of my dream before me, upon my waking (from the trance of my illusion).