39. “Even your father, with all his learning in every science, and devotedness to austerities, has not arrived to the state of perfection like you.
40. “I am a pupil of Vyása, and you are his son; but you are greater than both of us, by your abandonment of the taste for the enjoyments of life.
41. “You have obtained whatever is obtainable by the comprehensiveness of your mind; and as you take no interest in the outer and visible world, you are liberated from it, and have nothing to doubt of.”
42. Being thus advised by the magnanimous Janaka, Suka remained silent with his mind fixed in the purely supreme object.
43. Then being devoid of sorrow and fear, and released from all efforts, exertions and doubts, he repaired to a peaceful summit of the mount Meru to obtain his final absorption.
44. There he passed ten thousands of rains in a state of unalterable meditation, till at last he broke his mortal coil, and was extinguished in the supreme soul like a lamp without oil.
45. Thus purified from the stain of transmigration by abstaining from earthly desires, the great souled Suka sank into the holy state of the Supreme Spirit, as a drop of water mixes with the waters or merges into the depth of the ocean.
CHAPTER II.
Speech of Viswámitra.
Viswámitra said:—
Ráma! it now becomes you to have your mind properly purified from its doubts, as it was done in the case of the son of Vyása.