CHAPTER XIV. SUKRA’S REMINISCENCE OF HIS METEMPSYCHOSIS.
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Valmiki and Mitra, Viharilala
39. I have undergone great hardships, and known prosperity also with the toil of earning; have had my wanderings also in different lives, and remember to have roamed for a long time, over the mountainous regions of Meru.
40. I drank the water reddened with the pollen of mandara flowers, and roved along the bank of the heavenly stream of Mandákiní filled with lotuses.
41. I wandered about the Mandara groves, filled with flowering creepers like gold, and under the shade of the kalpa arbors of Meru, and in the flowery plains above and about it.
42. There is naught of good or evil, which I have not tasted or felt or done myself; nor is there anything, which I have not seen and felt and known in my past lives.
43. I have now known the knowable (that is to be known), and seen the imperishable one in whom I have my repose. I have now rested after my toils were over, and have passed beyond the domain of error and darkness.
44. Now rise, O father! and let us go to see that body, lying on the Mandara mount, and which is now dried as a withered plant.
45. I have no desire to remain in this place, nor go anywhere of my own will; it is only to see the works of fate, that we wander all about.
46. I will follow you, with my firm belief in the one adored Deity of the learned. Let that be the desirable object of my mind, and I will act exactly in conformity with my belief.