70. The mind being freed from its imagination, and drowned in deep meditation (samádhi), as in the state of a sleepless sleeper; it comes to the sight of an even intellectual vacuity, engrossing the sights of all the worlds, as if absorbed in it.
71. As a man passing from one place to another, is unmindful of the intermediate scenes; so the attention being directed solely to the sight of the intellectual void, the thought of all the world and other existences is wholly lost in the same. (Such sight of the single point in view is called the sakhá chandra darsana. Nyáya).
72. In this state of intense meditation, the thought of a duality is lost in that of the unity; and this idea of oneness disappears in that of a vast void, which terminates to a state of conscious bliss (which is the summum bonum of yoga philosophy).
73. In this state of insouciance, the duality of the world is lost in the nullity of vacuity; the knowledge of self personality is dwindled to spirituality, and all futurity presents itself clearly to the view of the clairvoyance of the enrapt yogi. (This forms the púrnatá or perfectibility of yoga practice).
74. The perfect yogi remains with his mind, as clear as the vacuous sky, enveloping the phenomenals in its ample sphere; he sits silent and as still and cold as a stone; he views the world in himself, and remains quiet in rapturous amazement at the view.
CHAPTER CXXVI.
Resuscitation and conduct of the Vipaschitas.
Argument:—Release of the Dead from the error of the world, their wanderings and fancies of themselves.
Ráma said:—Now tell me sir, what the Vipaschitas did, being cast in the seas, islands and forests, in the different parts of the earth.
2. Vasishtha replied:—Hear now, Ráma, of the Vipaschitas, in all their wanderings amidst the forests of tála and tamála trees, upon the hills and in the islands of different sides.
3. One of the Vipaschitas, that was roving about the westerly ridge of a mountain in Kraunchadwípa, was crushed to death by the tusk of an elephant, as it tears a lotus in the lake.