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(22) If one, however, fosters a desire, oh King, to lord over what one calls the realm of enjoyment of the gods in the sky, or wishes to rule the world of the gunas [the modes of nature] using the eight mystic powers [the eight siddhis or perfections], one inevitably has to count with the mind and the senses associated therewith.

(23) One says that the great transcendentalists in the realm of the subtle body, because of their knowledge, austerity, yoga and absorption are able to move freely within and without the three worlds, while those who do their work based upon  material motives never attain such progress.

(24) In the control of the divinity of fire [Vaishvanara, or with regular sacrifice and meditation] one attains by following the path of [the sushumna, the channel of balancing] the breath, the illuminating pure Spirit of the Absolute, whereupon - being freed from impurities going upwards - one [in respect of the cyclic order of the luminaries] reaches the [galactic chakra order of the] Lord, oh King, called Shishumara [meaning: dolphin, to the form of the Milky Way, galactic time].

(25) Passing beyond that navel of the universe, the pivot, the center of spin of the Maintainer [Vishnu], only the individual living being who got purified by the realization of his smallness [the yogi], reaches the place worshiped by those who know the Absolute Spirit. The self-realized souls enjoy their stay there for the time of a kalpa [a day of Brahma].

(26) Thereupon he who from the bed of Vishnu [Ananta] sees how the universe is burning to ashes because of the fire from His mouth, will leave that place for the supreme abode that lasts for two parardhas [the two halves of the life of Brahma] and is the home of the purified souls of elevation.

(27) There one will never find bereavement or old age, death, pain, or anxieties, save that one sometimes has feelings of compassion when one sees the ignorant who are subjected to the hard to overcome misery of the repetition of birth and death.