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pleased; but before he had returned to the gods he thought: "Truly, in this dreamless repose he does not know his Self that he is I, nor does he know anything that exists. He is gone to utter annihilation. So I see no good in this." Taking fuel in his hands he once more went to Prajapati as his pupil. Prajapati again asked: "Well Indra, what again has brought you back?” He again told him his difficulty. Prajapati said: "So it is indeed, Indra; I shall explain the true Self further to you and nothing more than this. Live here another five years." He lived there for another five years. This made in all 101 years. Prajapati then said: “Indre this body is mortal and always held by death. It is the abode of that Self which is immortal and without body. When in the body by thinking this body is I and I am this body, the Self is held by pleasure and pain. So long as he is in the body he cannot get free from pleasure and pain. But when he is free of the body, when he knows himself different from the body, then neither pleasure nor pain touches himn. The wind is without body, the cloud, lightning and thunder are without body (without hands, feet etc). Now as these arising from the heavenly ether appear in their own form, as soon as they have approached the highest light, thus does that serene being, arising from this body, appear in its own form, as soon as it has approached the highest light-the knowledge of
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