The Yoga Vasistha Maharamayana of Valmiki

The loud lamentations of the friends of the dead and the bitter cries of the dying mixed with the clamour raised by the driving cars elephants and horses thickened in the air as a solid body of sound (pindagrithya). [...] There is no error or illusion anywhere except in the misconception of the observer; therefore the removal of the fallacy from the mind of the viewer leads him to the perception of the light of truth. [...] 8. They passed the region of the clouds and overstepped the tracks of the winds ; then passing beyond the orbit of the sun they reached the stations of the constellations. [...] What is it that has caused the warmth of the fire and sun and gave stability to the earth ? 7. Why is coldness confined to the frost and the like and what forms the essence of time and space ; what are the causes of the different states of things and their various changes and the causes of the solidity of some and tenuity of others ? 8. What is that which causes the tallness of trees and men ab [...] The sky is the manifestation of the intellectual idea of vacuity in the divine mind ; and the idea of duration in the intellect appeared in the form of the parts of time.