53. He whose soul is awakened by knowledge, loses the sense of his corporeal body, and raises himself to his átiváhika or spiritual form, by means of his purer understanding.
54. A man having his sentient and spiritual body, either in the form of a minute particle or larger size as one may wish, remains perfectly liberated from the fetters of his body and his bondage in this world.
55. With his intelligent and spiritual body, a man is enabled to enter into the impenetrable heart of a hard stone, or to rise to heaven above or descend to the regions below.
56. Hence, O Ráma, I having then that intelligent and subtile body of mine, did all that I told you, with my essence of infinite understanding.
57. In my entrance into the hard stone, and my passages up and down the high heaven and the nether world, I experienced no difficulty from any side.
58. With my subtile and intelligent body, I passed every where, and felt everything, as I used to do with material body.
59. One going of his own accord in one direction, and wishing to go in another, immediately finds himself even then and there, by means of his spiritual body.
60. Know this spiritual and subtile body, to be no other than your understanding only; and now you can well perceive yourself to be of that imperishable form, by means of your intelligence also.
61. Thinking one’s self as the vacuous Intellect, abiding in the sun and all visible objects; the spiritualist comes to know the existence of his self only, and all else that is beside himself as nothing.
62. But how is it possible to view the visible world as inexistent, to which it is answered that it appears as real as the unreal dream to the sleeping person, but vanishes into nothing upon his waking (scholium). Reliance in the inexistent world, is as the belief of the ignorant man in falsehoods; and this reliance is confirmed by habit, although it is not relied upon by others that know the truth.