7. Hence where is that passage of the lungs, and where is that Virajian soul any more? They are burnt away together with the vigour and vitality of the dead body.
8. It is on account of this, O sage, that you could not find out those two bodies; and wandered about in this endless world of dreams, as if you were in your waking state.
9. Therefore know this mortal state, as a mere dream appearing as waking, and that all of us are but day dreams, and seeing one another as we see the visionary beings in our dreams.
10. You are a visionary man to me, and so am I also to you; and this intellectual sphere, wherein the soul is situated within itself.
11. You have been ere while a visionary being in your life, until you thought yourself to be a waking man in your domestic life.
12. I have thus related to you the whole matter, as it has occurred to you; and which you well know by your conception, perception and meditation of them.
13. Know at last that it is the firm conviction of our consciousness, which shines for ever as the glitter of gold in the vacuum of our minds; and the intellectual soul catches the colour of our deeds, be they fair or foul or a commixture of both, in its state of a regenerated spirit.
CHAPTER CLII.
The sage’s Discourse at Night.
Argument:—Refutation of the Reality of Dreams, and the reason of the Preceptorship of the Hunter.
The sage resumed:—Saying so the sage held his silence, and lay himself in his bed at night; and I was as bewildered in my mind, as if blown away by the winds.