11. They are giddy with their wrong notions, and are not worthy of our discourse; because no conversation can be held with them that are intoxicated without intoxication, and are learned with their ignorance or learned fools.
12. When the discourse of the learned, is not capable of removing the doubts of men in all places; such discourse is to be understood as the foolish talk of the universe.
13. He who relies in his belief in the sensibles only, and regards the believer of the invisible as a fool; such a man (i.e. the Buddhist or Charvaka), is considered for his unreasonable reasoning, as a block of stone or stony block head.
14. The fool that maintains this (materialistic) doctrine, in opposition to all rational philosophy, is said to be a frog of the dark cave (or as a blind mole of the hole); because he is blind both to the past which is out of his sight, as also to the invisible future and is concerned only what is present before him.
15. It is the veda and the sayings of wisemen, and the inferences of their right reasoning (in support of the invisible), as I have maintained in these lectures, that can remove the doubts in these matters.
16. If the sensible body (i.e. its sensation) be consciousness (according to the Buddhist); then why is the dead body unconscious of anything? (To this the Buddhist retorts by saying:) Should the conscious and all pervading soul be the body, then why doth not the dull corpse think as the living body? In reply to this foolish question, it is thus said in the veda:
17. This world is an imaginary city of the divine mind, in its form of Brahmá—the creator; and it is hence that the phenomenon of the world, appears to our minds as a phantom in our dream (or as a reflex of the same).
18. Therefore all this that you see, is but the creation of the divine intellect, and an intellectual entity in itself; and you are not amiss in your judgement, if you consider them as phantoms in your dream, and appearing in the vacuity of your mind.
19. Hence this earth and the skies, these hills and cities, are all but appearances in the void of the intellect, and conception of your mind, as those appearing in the reveries of dream, or as air built castles.
20. It is the dense vacuum of self-consciousness, which is called the great Brahmá or the personal god of creation; and it is the display of his will in the concrete, which is known as Virát or the visible universe; thus is the pure and discrete consciousness of Brahma, condensed into the form of the world.