8. There are islands and seas beyond these, and others again beyond them; how many such and many more, may there be of this kind, and how inscrutable is the delusion which is thus spread before our minds. (i.e. All these are but our mental delusions).
9. Let us therefore pray the god of fire (electricity), that we may see at once every thing on all sides by his favour, and with<out> any exertion of or pain on our sides.
10. So saying and thinking in this manner, they all reflected on the god with one accord, and meditated on him, as they sat in their respective places.
11. The god appeared to them, and stood manifest before their sight in his tangible form, and spoke to them saying:—“Ask ye my sons, what favor you desire of me.”
12. They said: O lord of gods, that abidest beyond this visible and elemental world, ordain, that by means of the vedic mantra and our purified minds, we may know the knowables in our minds.
13. Give us, O God, this great and best boon, that we ask of thee; that we may know by thy light, whatever is knowable by either the external senses; mind or by our self-consciousness. (i.e. By the three means of knowledge).
14. Enable us to see with our eyes O lord! the paths, which lead the siddhas and yogis to the sight of the invisibles; and make us also to perceive in our minds the things, that <are> imperceptible to them.
15. Let not death overtake us, till we have reached to the ways of the siddhas; and let thy grace guide us in the paths, where no embodied being can pass (i.e. in our journey to the next world, when we have shuffled our mortal coil).
16. Vasishtha said:—“So be it”, said the igneous god, and instantly disappeared from their sight; as the submarine fire bursts forth, and vanishes at once in the sea.
17. As the fiery god disappeared, there appeared the dark night after him; and as the night also fled after a while, the sunshine returned with the reviving wishes of the king and his men, to survey the wide ocean lying before them.