Argument:—Mutual assistance of the four persons of the prince to one another, and their true meaning.
Vasishtha continued:—Now of the quadripartite bodies of the prince, that which was transformed to a tree, in the valley called the vale of fearlessness in sacadwípa: supported itself by sucking the better water of the rock which it drew by its roots.
2. It was then that the western part of the royal person, came up to the relief of the former or eastern part, and released it from the curse of its vegetable state of full seventy years, by the power of its incantations.
3. Again the western person of the king, passing to the frigid clime, was there transformed to a stone by curse of the chief of the Pisácha tribe; but was released afterwards from that state by <a> southern personage, by his offering of meat food to the carnivorous Pisácha.
4. At another time as this western personage, was settled beyond the western horizon, it was changed to the form of a bull by a female fiend, that had assumed on her the form of a cow, and was freed at last from that state by the southern person.
5. Again the southern figure of the prince, was doomed to live as a demon on a mountain tree in the Kshemaka, and was liberated at last from it by the yaksha prince.
6. Then again, the eastern person of the prince, was metamorphosed to the shape of a lion, on a mountain in the province of Vrishaka, and was delivered for its metamorphoses by the western personality.
7. Ráma rejoined:—How is it sir, that the single individuality of the prince, which was confined in one spot as that of a yogi; could be ubiquious at one and the same time, could perform the various acts of different times and places at once, by the all comprehensive universality of the mind.
8. Vasishtha replied:—O Ráma! Let the unenlightened think whatever they may, respecting this world (i.e. let them take its unreality for positive reality); but do you attend to what I say, regarding the light in which it is viewed by the enlightened yogis (who view it in its spiritual light, and conduct all their operations in the mind only).
9. According to spiritualists, there is no other essence, except one universal Intellect; the phenomenal are an utter inexistence, and the creation or increate entity of the world, blends into nothing. (The intellect is a formless and all-pervading essence, and acts in many ways in all places).