Argument:—The conduct of men that are firm in the resolution and the behaviour of Vasishtha in the etherial regions.
Vasishtha continued:—I then having my inane intellectual body, which was quite free from the composition of the five elements; roved about in the air in the manner of a pisácha ghost (seeing all and seen by none).
2. I was not perceived by the sun and moon, nor by the gods Hari, Hara, Indra and others; and was quite invisible to the siddhas, gandharvas, Kinnaras and Apsaras of heaven.
3. I was astonished to think as any honest person, who is a stranger at the house of another; why the residents of the place did not perceive me, though I advanced towards them and called them to me.
4. I then thought in myself that, as these etherial beings are seekers of truth like ourselves; it is right they should observe me among them in their etherial abode.
5. They then began to look upon me standing before them, and felt astonished at my unthought appearance, as the spectators are startled at the sudden sight of a juggler’s trick or some magic show.
6. Then I managed myself as I ought in the house of the gods, I sat quiet in their presence, and addressed and accosted them without any fear.
7. Those who beheld me standing at the compound at first, and were unacquainted with the particulars (of my sagely character), thought me a mere earthly being, and known as Vasishtha by name.
8. When I was in sun light by the celestials in heaven, they took me for the enlightened Vasishtha, who is well known in the world.
9. As I was seen afloat in the air by the aerial siddhas, they called me by the name of the aerial Vasishtha.