2. You will then reclaim and enlighten him, by means of your meritorious remonstrance; and he then will commence and continue to practice his austerities, from his aversion to the world.
3. Then continuing in his austere devotion, he will be desirous of gaining spiritual knowledge, and make inquiries into the phenomena of dreaming.
4. You sir, will then instruct him fully in divine knowledge, and he will be versed in it by your lectures on the nature of dreams.
5. In this manner you will become his religious instructor, and it is for this reason that I have accosted you with the epithet or title of the huntsman’s guru or religious guide.
6. Now sir, I have related to you already regarding our errors of this world; and what I and you are at present, and what we shall turn to be afterwards.
7. Being thus spoken to by him, and learning all these things from him, I became filled with wonder, and was he more amazed as I remonstrated with him on these matters.
8. Thus we passed the night in mutual conversation, and after we got up in the morning, I honoured the sage with due respect, and he was pleased with me.
9. Afterwards we continued to live together in the same homely hut of the same village, with our steady minds and our friendship daily increasing.
10. In this manner time glided on peacefully upon us, and the revolutions of his days and nights, and returns of months, seasons and years; and I have been sitting here unmoved under all the vicissitudes of time and fortune.
11. I long not for a long life, nor desire to die ere the destined day; I live as well as I may, without any care or anxiety about this or that.