Variance Component extraction in lme - Why do we multiply with sigma?

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Hello all,

In the nlme package, I understand that to extract variance components in the random effects there's a VarCorr function. However, I recently also came across how it is done in another snippet of package

  VC <- lapply(pdMatrix(lmeObject$modelStruct$reStruct), "*", 
               lmeObject$sigma^2)[[1]]

where it multiplies the matrix of the random effects with the within-subject standard variance.
May I know why is this done?

Thank you,
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