Tripura Rahasya: Sightseeing of the hill

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Sage Dattatreya said,

• The sage's son entered the hill without trouble and disappeared, but Mahasena was not able to enter. So he called out for the sage's son.
• He too called out to the kind, from the interior of the hill. Then he came out of it and said to the king:
• 'O King, this hill cannot be penetrated with the slender yogic powers that you possess. You will find it too dense. Nevertheless you must be taken into it as my father ordered. Now, leave your gross body in this hole covered with bushes; enter the hill with your mental sheath along with me.' The king could not do it and asked, 'Tell me, Saint, how am I to throw off this body. If I do it forcibly, I shall die.'
• The Saint (sage's son) smiled at this and said: 'You do not seem to know yoga. Well, close your eyes.'
• The king closed his eyes; the saint forthwith entered into him, took the other's subtle body and left the gross body in the hole.
• Then by his yogic power the saint entered the hill with this subtle body snatched from the other which was filled with the desire of seeing the empire within the bowels of the hill.
• Once inside he roused up the sleeping individual to dream. The latter now found himself held by the saint in the wide expanse of ether.
• He was alarmed on looking in all directions and requested the saint: 'Do not forsake me lest I should perish in this illimitable space.' The saint laughed at his terror and said: 'I shall never forsake you. Be assured of it. Now look round at everything and have no fear.'
• The king took courage and looked all around. He saw the sky above, enveloped in the darkness of night  and shining with stars. He ascended there and looked down below; he came to the region of the moon and was benumbed with cold. Protected by the saint, he went up to the Sun and was scorched by its rays. Again tended by the saint, he was refreshed and saw the whole region a counterpart of the Heaven. He went up to the summits of the Himalayas with the saint and was shown the whole region and also the earth. Again endowed with powerful eyesight, he was able to see far-off lands and discovered other worlds besides this one. In the distant worlds there was darkness prevailing in some places; the earth was gold in some; there were oceans and island continents traversed by rivers and mountains; there were the heavens peopled by Indra and the Gods, the asuras, human beings, the rakshasas and other races of celestials. He also found that the saint had divided himself as Brahma in Satyaloka, as Vishnu in Vaikunta, and as Siva in Kailasa, while all the time he remained as his original-self, the king ruling in the present world. The king (Mahasena) was struck with wonder on seeing the yogic power of the saint. 
• The sage's son said to him: 'This sightseeing has lasted only a single day according to the standards prevailing here, whereas twelve thousand years have passed by in the world you are used to. So let us return to my father.'
• Saying so, he helped the other to come out of the hill to this outer world.

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Thus ends the chapter on 'Sightseeing in the Ganda Hill' in Tripura Rahasya