16. Ráma! seeing by thy keen sightedness, that all these bodies are bodiless (i.e. only imaginary beings), why shouldst thou fall into the error (of taking them for realities?).
17. As the mirage is made to appear by the heat of the sun, so do these false appearances seem as true to thee from the certainty of thy mind. So also are Brahmá and others but creatures of thy fancy.
18. They are as false as the sight of two moons in the sky by thy false imagination, it is the great fallacy of thy mind, that represents these false forms of the world before thee.
19. As the passenger in a boat sees the fixed objects on earth to be moving about him, so these varieties of visible objects offer themselves to thy view.
20. Know the world as an enchanted scene, presented by the magic of thy error (máyá); it is a fabrication of the working of thy mind, and is a nullity though appearing as a reality.
21. All this world is Brahma, what else is there beside him? What other adjunct can he have, what is that? Whence did it come, and where is it situated?
22. That this is a mountain and that is a tree, are appendages affixed by our error and mistake, it is the prejudgment of the mind, that makes the unreality appear as a reality.
23. The world is the creation of error and idol of fools; shun your fond desire and thoughts of it, Ráma, and think of thy unworldly soul.
24. It is as false as the visionary scene of a prolonged dream, and an aerial building of the fancies of the mind.
25. Shun this grand display of the world, which is so substantial to sight, and so inane when felt; It is the den of the dragons of desire, foaming with the poison of their passions.