77. It is the calm and quiet spirit of Brahma, that gives rise to all things which are equally calm and quiet also; the world is mere vacuum, without having any reality in it. It is the vacuous mind that represents endless varieties of such forms in the sphere of its own vacuity, as the endless reflexions of its vacuous person.
CHAPTER CXXXXVI.
Disquisition of Sound Sleep.
Argument:—Relation of sleep after dream, and followed by dream likewise, concluding with proof of the unity of God.
The Huntsman said:—Tell me, O great sage, what did you do and see afterwards, from your seat in the erroneous spirit of that person.
2. The sage replied:—Hear me tell you next, what I did and saw afterwards, by my union with and my situation in the spirit of that infatuated person.
3. As I resided in the dark cave of his heart, in the confusion of the last doomsday; there arose methought a hurricane, which blew away the mountains as straws, on the day of the final desolation of the world.
4. It was soon followed by outpourings of rain water from the mountain tops; which bore away the woods and hills in the torrent.
5. As I dwelt in that cavity and in union with the vitality of the individual, I perceived even in that state of my spiritual minuteness, the falling rains and hailstones from the mountain tops.
6. I was then folded in the chyle of that person, and fell into a state of sound sleep, and felt a deep darkness enveloping me all over.
7. Having laid down in my sleep for some time, I was gradually raised from my sleepy state; as the closed lotus of the night, unfolds its petals in the morning.