Verses 240–249

240. How subtle is the interior vision? Pure is the sight of sight. Equal to the deity is the eye of our eye.

241. If thou carefully fix thy sight on the top of thy nose, then does a man correctly view the pre-eminent. He who hath known the pre-eminent cutteth off all secular ties.

242. Unless he sees (i.e., comprehend) the divine name (the mystic syllable named Pranava), a man cannot become faithful Unless he behold the lights (jyotees) that appear to the closed eyes, he is not in the way. Unless he behold the everlasting he is not in the state of beatitude.

243. By the mudricas in the mind being rightly ordered, as thou gazest on the linga of soul (the deity), it shall be manifested to thee and shall it be bestowed on thee devoid of teacher? That thou should’st understand it?

244. (Mystic) By gazing at the blight mudras, happiness or sorrow is produced. Looking at the blessing of the mudras and enjoying it, thou shalt shine as a beatified saint.

245. Unless thou dissolve the splendours of three affections, how should one attain permanent bliss in a fit manner? Unless thou annihilate thy mind can beatitude be put into thy hand,

246. Fixed in meditation, with eyes and ears closed, heard a ringing as of a bell in my mind; beholding I beheld a pure splendour and attaining the divinity. I beheld it within me. This is no hypocrisy. Look then to me.

247. Behold the (bayalu-ācāsa) sky and consider that splendour, view the departure of that light, uninjured. He that can view uninjured shall stand unshaken.

248. Lose not understanding behold the enlightening calas--confuse not the calas steadily behold the inner heaven (bayalu-antarācāsa); confuse not that heaven and steadily thou shalt behold the divinity.

249. In meditation if after gazing steadily thou persist not to the end, when thy sight fails again push on thy glance again. Him that fails unable to push it on, they look on as very light person.