The Bhikṣuṇī Maṇimēkhalai

185 - Interview with a Goddess
through the air and to assume any form that would suit her for the
occasion.
She retired telling her that one essential that Maṇimēkhalai should
remember was that she should adopt the path of Dharma as taught by
the Buddha, and the next, that she was to offer her worship to the seat
and return. Having ascended the air, she came down again and asked
Maṇimēkhalai,
‘You have undertaken to follow the path of discipline. Human bodies
are built of food, and hunger is a great necessity.’
She taught Maṇimēkhalai therefore another mantra which would get
rid of hunger at the thought of it. Having given her this, she left and
disappeared through the air.