16. Alas! and I wonder at it, that I was misled by my ignorance, that I was misled by my erroneous knowledge of the world, to this state of life, which is utterly devoid of every good.
17. Or what ever I am, I find myself to be full of errors only, and there is no truth whatever in me; and yet it is the error of errors and the greatest blunder, that we should be so beguiled and betrayed by unrealities.
18. Neither am I nor this or that any entity at all; and yet it is a wonder, that all these false appearances, should appear as realities.
19. What then must I do at present to break my bondage to these falsities; I see the germ of error lying inside myself, and this tear off and cast away from me.
20. Be there the primeval ignorance, prevalent all over the world; she can do us no harm, that is a mere negation herself; It is now that I must try to get rid of my error, of deeming the unreal as real.
21. That this sage is my preceptor and I am his pupil, is all a mistake; because I am in and the very Brahma, and the person sitting here by me, is as the man in the moon or in the cloud.
22. Then thought I of speaking to that great sage of enlightened understanding; and so thinking, I addressed him saying:—
23. O great sage! I will now go to my own body (from out of the body of this person), in order to see what I may be doing there.
24. Hearing this, that great sage said smilingly to me, Ah! where are those bodies of you two; that are blown away afar in their ashes.
25. You may go there yourself if you please, and see the matter yourself; and by seeing their present state, you will know every thing relating to them.