26. Being thus advised by him, I thought on entering my former body.
27. I told him, do you remain here, O sage, until I come back to this place, after seeing my former body; so saying I became a breath of air, and fled from my abode.
28. Then mounting on the car of wind, I wandered through the air, and was wafted to a hundred ways like the odour of a flower, carried rapidly all about by the odoriferous breezes for a long time.
29. Roving long in this manner, I sought to enter that body, by the passage of its lungs; but finding neither that or any other passage, I kept floating in the air.
30. Then with deep felt sorrow, I returned to my place, and became tied again to that stake of the world, by my returning affections to it.
31. Here I saw that venerable sage sitting before me, and asked him intensely in the following manner in my house in this place.
32. Tell me sir, said I, for thou knowest all the past and future; and knowest what all this is, by means of thy all seeing sight.
33. How was it that the person in whose body I had entered, as also my own body likewise, could neither of them be found anywhere.
34. I then wandered throughout the vast expanse of the sphere of this earth, and searched amidst all fixed and living bodies herein, but could not find that opening of the throat from which I had come out.
35. Being thus addressed by me, that high minded muni or sage then said unto me; it is not possible for thee with thy bright and brilliant eyes to find it out unaided by my advice.