10. Or were my parents dead in the ignorant state of my boyhood, like the parent plant of a young shoot, cut off by the sword of death?
11. I am unmarried and know not the form of a wife, and am as ignorant of conjugal love, as a Bráhman is stranger to the pernicious taste of forbidden liquors.
12. I am too far from my country and know none of my friends and relatives; unto whom I shall return and there to die.
13. Therefore all these scenes that I have come to see, are no more than the forms of the fairy land pictured in my fancy.
14. Be it as it may, all this is but delusion and dream, and we are living dead among our friends; it is all magic and delusion, and nothing is true or real herein.
15. Our minds are as wild beasts, roaming furiously in the forest of error; which presents endless scenes of delusion to living beings at large.
16. Reflecting on these delusions in his mind, Gádhi passed some days at his own house amidst the woods.
17. Once on a time he happened to entertain a Bráhman at his house as his guest, who resorted there to take his rest from his travels.
18. He was highly gratified with feasting upon fruits and syrup of flowers, and was as refreshed supplied with sap as the tree which is supplied by the bounteous spring, and shoots forth in its foliage and fruitage in time.
19. They then performed their evening service, and turned their beads, and afterwards took to their beds made of tender leaves and grass.