I flew off to Brahma’s realm, but when I looked back I my flight, O my friend, two fingers’ breadth was all the distance between me and Rama’s arms!

Piercing the seven veils of the universe (consisting of earth, water, fire, air, ether, the cosmic ego and the cosmic intellect.), I mounted to the utmost height I could reach; but when I saw the Lord’s arms even there, I was again dumbfounded.

In my terror I closed my eyes, and when I opened them again, I found myself in the city of Ayodhya. Rama looked at me with a smile, and as he laughed, I was straightaway driven into his mouth.

Listen, king of birds; in his belly I beheld a cluster of multitudinous universes, with many strange spheres, each more wonderful than the other,

with millions of Brahmas and Shivas, countless stars and suns and moons, innumerable guardians of the spheres and gods of Death and times, numberless mountains and vast terrestrial plains,

oceans, rivers, lakes and forests without end and manifold other varieties of creation, with gods and sages, adepts, serpents, human beings and Kinnaras, and all the four kinds of creatures, moving and unmoved.

I saw there all such marvels as I had never seen or heard of, such as had never entered my mind; how, then, can I describe them?