33. It is the will or desire of Virát, that produced the gods Brahmá, Vishnu and Siva from himself; and all the celestial deities and demons, are the miraculous creation of his mind.
34. It is the wonderful nature of the intelligent Intellect, that whatever it thinks upon in its form of an infinitesimal atom, the same appears immediately before it in its gigantic form and size.
35. Know Ráma, the whole universe to be seat of the soul of Virát (i.e. the whole universe to be teeming with life), and the five elements to compose the five component parts of his body. (Whose body is all nature and whose soul is God).
36. Virát that shines as the collective or universal soul of the world, in the bright orb of the moon, diffuses light and life to all individuals by spreading the moonbeams which produces the vegetable food for the supportance and sustenance of living beings.
37. The vegetable substances, which supply the animal bodies with their sustenance; and thereby produce the life of living beings; produce also the mind which becomes the cause of the actions and future births of persons by its efforts towards the same.
38. In this manner a thousand viráts and hundreds of Mahákalpa periods have passed away; and, there many such still existing and yet to appear, with varieties of customs and manners of peoples in different ages and climes.
39. The first and best and supremely blest Virát—the male Deity, resides in this manner of our conception of him, and indistinct in his essence from the state of transcendent divinity; with his huge body extending beyond the limits of space and time. (This Virát or Brahmá is the Demiurgus of platonic philosophy).
CHAPTER XX.
Lecture on the Extinction of the Living Soul.
Argument:—Extinction of individual souls in the universal, by their abandonment of desires.
Vasishtha continued:—This primary Purusha or the Male agent—Virát, is a volitive principle; and whatever he wills to do at anytime, the same appears instantly before him in its material form of the five elements.