9. Then the whole creation, which is but the ectype of the mind of Brahmá; appeared as void as an empty desert to me; and as the earth turning to a barrenwaste upon the ruin of its cities.
10. The gods and sages, the angels and all other beings, were no where to be seen any more; but were all blended in and with the same void every where.
11. I then seated in my etherial seat, came to know by my percipience, that all of them have become extinct (lit. obtained their nirvána extinction, like Brahmá in Brahma himself).
12. It is with the extinction of their desires, that they have become extinct also; as the sleeping dreamers come to themselves after they are awakened from their illusive vision. (Coming to one’s self Swasiarúpa one’s own nature or essence, means in vedánta, the holy and pure nature of the human soul, as an emanation or image of the divine).
13. The body is an aerial nothing, appearing as a substantial something, from our desire (or imagination of it only), and disappearing with the privation of our fancy for it, like a dream vanishing from the sight of a waking man.
14. The aerial body appears as real as any other image in our dream; and there remains nothing of it, upon our coming to their knowledge of its unreal nature, and the vanity of our desires.
15. We have no consciousness also, of either our spiritual or corporeal bodies, when we are fixed in our samádhi or intense meditation in the state of our waking (from sleep).
16. The notion of a thing seen in our dream, is given here as an instance (to prove the unreality of our idea of the body); because it is well known to boys and every body, and adduced to us both in the srutis and smritis tradition (that the objects of sight, are as false as those of dreams).
17. Whoever denies the falsity of the notions he has in his dream, and goes on to support the reality of these as well as other visible sights; must be a great impostor; and such a one deserves to be shunned, for who can wake the waking sleeper.
18. What is the cause of the corporeal body? Not the dream; since the bodies seen in a dream, are invisible (to the naked eye); and this being true it follows, that there is no solid body in the next world (as it is expected by means of sacrifices and pious acts).