After this conference between the goddess and that excellent lady on that night, they found the inmates of the family fast asleep in the inner apartment.
2. They entered the charnel-house which was closely shut on all sides by latches fastened to the doors and windows, and which was perfumed with the fragrance of heaps of flowers.
3. They sat beside the corpse decorated with fresh flowers and garments, with their faces shining like the fair full-moon; and brightening the place.
4. They then went to the cemetery and stood motionless on the spot, as if they were sculptures engraven on marble columns, or as pictures drawn upon the wall.
5. They shook off all their thoughts and cares, and became as contracted as the faded blossoms of the lotus at the decline of the day, when their fragrance has fled from them.
6. They remained still, calm and quiet and without any motion of their limbs, like a sheet of clouds hanging on the mountain top in the calm of autumn.
7. They continued in fixed attention without any external sensation, like some lonely creepers shrivelled for want of the moisture of the season.
8. They were fully impressed with the disbelief of their own existence, and that of all other things in the world, and were altogether absorbed in the thought of an absolute privation of every thing at large.
9. They lost the remembrance of the phantom of the phenomenal world, which is as unreal as the horn of a hare.
10. What was a non ens at first, is even so a not-being at present, and what appears as existent, is as inexistent as the water in a mirage.