66. The monarch of the Pushkara continent, who was also the master of the Mountainous regions of Lokáloka; set out with his deputy to inspect the land of the gold mines.
67. Thus every one of these brothers, thought himself to be the Lord of his respective province, as his imagination portrayed unto him in the region of his mind.
68. The Blessings then, having relinquished their several forms and personalities, became united and one with the consciousness of the Bráhmans, and felt and saw whatever passed in them, as if they were passing in themselves likewise. (The divine blessing on them being no other than the approbation of their conscience).
69. So these brothers became and found in themselves, what they had long been longing after, in their respective lordship over the seven regions of the earth, which they continued to enjoy ever since to their heart’s content.
70. It was in this manner that these men of enlarged understandings, obtained what they sought in their minds, by means of their austere devotion and firm devotedness to their purpose. So it is with the learned that they find everything beside them, whatever they are intent upon in their minds, by means of their acting upon the same principle, and using the proper means conducing to that end.
CHAPTER CLXXXIV.
A Lecture on the all Comprehensiveness of the soul.
Argument:—Nature of the unenlightened soul, to represent unnumbered worlds within itself.
Kunda-danta said:—I then asked <the> devotee sitting beneath the kadamba tree, to tell me how the seven large continents of the globe, could be contained within the narrow limits of the abodes of each of these brothers (which is next to an impossibility).
2. The kadamba devotee replied:—The essence of the intellect though so very vacuous in itself, is notwithstanding the most capacious and ubiquious of any thing in existence; and is present in its own nature with every thing, wherever it is known to exist.
3. The soul sees itself in the form of the triple world, and every thing besides in its different nature and figure, without changing itself to any one of them. (i.e. The soul remains unchanged in all the changeful scenes of nature).