18. I have told you already regarding the vigils of their desires, and now know them to be dormant over their desires, who bear their lives as they are life beings, and dead to their wishes like ourselves. But hear further of them that are ever awake.
19. The first patriarchs that were produced from the self-evolving Brahma, are said to have been ever wakeful, as they had been immerged in profound sleep before their production.
20. But being subjected to repeated births, these ever wakeful beings, became subject to alternate sleep and waking, owing to their subjection to reiterated work and repose.
21. These again became degraded to the state of trees, on account of their unworthy deeds; and these are said to be duly waking, because of their want of sensibility even in waking state. (The nocturnal sleep of the vegetable creation was unknown to the ancients).
22. Those who are enlightened by the light of the sástras, and the company of wise men; look upon the world as a dream in their waking state, and are therefore called as waking dreamers by day.
23. Those enlightened men, who have found their rest in the divine state; and are neither wholly awake nor asleep, are said to have arrived at the fourth stage of their yoga.
24. Thus have I related to you the difference, of the seven kinds of beings, as that of the waters of the seven seas from one another. Now be of that kind which you think to be the best.
25. After all, O Ráma, give up your error of reckoning the worlds as real entities of themselves; and as you have come to your firm belief in one absolute unity, get rid of the duality of vacuity and solidity, and be one with that primeval body, which is free from monism and dualism.
CHAPTER LI.
Admonition to arrive at the Yoga of Ultimate Rest.
Argument:—The world disappearing at the sight of God, its falsity at the sight of the self, and its voidness before true knowledge.