20. He passed some months on the same hill, and then resumed his devotion to Vishnu with redoubled fervency.
21. He saw his god appearing again to his view, when he bowed down before him, and addressed him as follows:—
22. Gádhi said:—O Lord! I am quite bewildered with the thought of my Chandálship, and my reflection on the delusions of this world.
23. Do thou deign to extricate me from my errors, and employ me to the only act of adoring the Holy one.
24. The lord said:—This world, O Bráhman! is a delusion, like the enchantment of the conjurer Sambara; all things here, are the wondrous productions of imagination, and proceed from forgetfulness of the self.
25. It was your error that made you see many things, in your sleeping and waking dreams.
26. The Kirs were led also to see the same things like thyself, and to mistake those falsities as true, owing to the same error laying hold of all of you at the same time. (As the tricks of a juggler are thought to be true by the observers).
27. Now hear me tell you the truth as it was for your own good; and whereby your error will fade away, like a creeping plant in the chilling month of November.
28. The Chandála Kátanjaka, whom thou thinkest to be thyself, was a man really existent in the same locality before.
29. Who being bereaved of his family there, went out from that place to wander about in foreign parts; when he became king of the Kiris, and afterwards immerged himself in the fire.