Therefore the wise have called it, in Sanskrit, Bhava Sagara, the "Ocean of Life," and the great devotees have constantly prayed to be liberated, that they may not sink in this ocean but that they may be able to swim in it, which is called Tarana. And it is the master-spirit that can rise above these waves of the enormous ocean of life, in which generally the souls are drowned. To be in it and to be able to stand above it and to walk on it is the phenomenon of Christ's walking upon the water.