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Yoga-Vāsistha, Book 3: Utpatti-Prakarana (Evolution of the World). Chapter 23 - The Aerial Journey of Spiritual Bodies
Vasistha said: After this conference between the goddess and that excellent lady on that night, they found the inmates of the family fast asleep in the inner apartment.
They entered the charnel-house which was closely shut on all sides by latches fastened to the doors and windows, and which was perfumed with the fragrance of heat of flowers.
They sat beside the corpse decorated with fresh flowers and garments, with their faces shining like the fair full-moon; and brightening the place.
They then went to the cemetery and stood motionless on the spot, as if they were sculptures engrave on marble columns, or as pictures drawn upon the wall.
They shook off all their thoughts and cares, and became as contracted as the faded blossoms of the lotus at the decline of the day, when their fragrance has fled from them.
They remained still, calm and quiet and without any motion of their limbs, like a sheet of clouds hanging on the mountain top in the calm of autumn.
They continued in fixed attention without any external sensation, like some lonely creepers shrivelled for want of the moisture of the season.
They were fully impressed with the disbelief of their own existence, and that of all other things in the world, and were altogether absorbed in the thought of an absolute privation of every thing at large.
They lost the remembrance of the phantom of the phenomenal world, which is as unreal as the horn of a hare.
What was a nonens at first, is even so a notbeing at present, and what appears as existent, is as in-existent as the water in a mirage.
The two ladies them became as quiet as inert nature herself, and as still as firmament before the luminous bodies rolled about in its ample sphere.
They then began to move with their own bodies, the goddess of wisdom in her form of intelligence, and the queen in her intellectual and meditative mood.
With their new bodies they rose as high as one span above the ground, then taking the forms of the empty intellect, they began to mount in the sky.
The two ladies then with their playful open eyes, ascended to the higher region of the sky, by their nature of intellectual knowledge.
Then they flew higher and higher by force of their intellect, and arrived at a region stretching millions of leagues in length.
Here the pair in their ethereal forms, looked about according to their nature in search of some visible objects; but finding no other figure except their own, they became much more attached to each other by their mutual affection.
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