35. They thought they sustained in them the whole world, which is presided over by the lotus-born Brahmá; and believed themselves to be transformed, to the form of the mundane God in an instant.
36. Believing themselves as Brahma, they sat long with the thought of supporting the world; and remained all along with their closed eyes, as if they were mere figures in painting.
37. With this belief they remained fixed and steady at the same spot, and many a month and year glided over their heads and motionless bodies.
38. They were reduced to dry skeletons, parts of which were beaten and devoured by rapacious beasts; and some of their <limbs> were at once severed and disappeared from their main bodies, like parts of a shadow by the rising sun.
39. Yet they continued to reflect that they were the God Brahmá and his creation also, and the world with all its parts, were contained in themselves (i.e. They considered themselves as Virát the form of macrocosm).
40. At last their ten bodiless minds, were thought to be converted to so many different worlds, in their abstract meditation of them. (i.e. Each of them viewed himself as a cosmos).
41. Thus it was by the will of their intellects, that each of them became a whole world in himself; and remained so in a clear or abstract view of it, without being accompanied by its grosser part.
42. It was in their own consciousness, that they saw the solid earth with all its hills &c. in themselves; because all things have reference to the intellect, and are viewed intellectually only (or else they are nothing).
43. What is this triple world, but its knowledge in our consciousness, without which we have no perception of it, and with which we have a clear conception of every thing. So all things are of the vacuous nature of our consciousness, and not otherwise.
44. As the wave is no other than the water of the sea, so there is nothing movable or immovable whatever, without our conscious knowledge of it.