4. It is the acuteness of the understanding, which is the only means of our coming to the knowledge of truth; that the creation and dissolution of the world, are dependant on the will and causality of the supreme Being.
5. He whose understanding becomes, is sure to lose his rooted prejudice by degrees; and come to the knowledge of the nihility of the material world.
6. In this way of refining your mind from its prepossession of gross ideas, you will come to find the erroneous conception of a prime male (ádipurusha), as that of Brahmá (or Adam) as the first creative power, to be as false as the water in the mirage.
7. The great grandfather of the world being a nullity, the creation of all creatures by him (who is thence called Prajápatih or lord of creatures); is likewise as false and null, as it is absurd for an impossibility to come into being.
8. The perception of a thing in esse, is as false as the conception of water in the mirage; a little reflexion is enough to remove this error, like the mistake of silver in cockles and conch-shells.
9. Any work which appears to exist without its cause, is only a phantom of fallacy, and has no essential form whatever in reality.
10. Whatever is done by one's erroneous knowledge or mistake of a thing, comes to be of no use to him; as the attempt to fill a pot with the water of the mirage, proves to be utterly vain.
11. Sikhidhwaja said:—Why can't we call the supreme Brahma, to be the cause of Brahmá—the first creator of the world who is called the son of God, the one unborn and without end, and the inexpressible and everlasting.
12. Kumbha replied:—The God Brahma, being neither the cause nor the effect of any action, is but an invariable unity and transcendent spirit, and is never the cause or effect of anything.