cause of the sorrow which seems to afflict all these people here.”
The son of the holy couple replied:“ O Ladies, in this very house there lived a pious man and his devoted wife, who were both devoted to a righteous life. Recently they abandoned their children and grandchildren, their house and their cattle, and ascended to heaven. Therefore, to us the whole world appears to be empty.” Hearing this, Lila laid her hand on the young man’ s head: instantly he was relieved of his sorrow.
LILA asked Sarasvati: How was it we were seen by this family of mine here, and we were not seen by my husband who was ruling the kingdom when we visited him?
SARASVATI answered: Then you were still clinging to your notion‘ I am Lila’; now you have overcome that body-consciousness. Till the consciousness of duality is completely dispelled, you cannot act in the infinite consciousness; you cannot even understand it, ever as one standing in the sun does not know the coolness of the shade of the tree. But now if you go to your husband you will be able to deal with him as before. Lila, you and your husband have been through many incarnations, three of which you now know. In this incarnation the king has slipped deep into the snare of worldliness and he thinks“ I am the lord, I am strong, I am happy, etc.” though from the spiritual standpoint the whole universe is experienced here, from the physical point of view millions of miles separate the planes.
In the infinite consciousness, in every atom of it, universes come and go like particles of dust in a beam of sunlight that shines through a hole in the roof.
These come and go like ripples on the Ocean. LILA reminisced: O Divinity! Since emerging as a reflection in the infinite consciousness I have had 800 births. Today I see this. I have been a nymph, a vicious human woman, a serpent, a forest tribal woman, and on account of evil deeds I became a creeper, and by the proximity of sages I became a sage’ s daughter; I became a king, and on account of evil deeds done then I became a mosquito, a bee, a deer, a bird, a fish; and again I became a celestial, after which I became a tortoise, and a swan, and I became a mosquito again. I have also been a celestial nymph when other celestials( males) used to fall at my feet. Just as the scales of balance seesaw constantly, I have also been caught up in the seesaw of this repetitive existence( samsara).
RAMA asked: Holy sir, how was it possible for the two ladies to travel to distant galaxies in the universe, and how did they overcome the numerous barriers on the way?