20. The sun displays every thing to light by his rays, and watches over the rotations of days and nights, to witness like time the dissolution of all things. 21. The gods Brahmá, Vishnu and Siva and all material productions, are reduced to nothingness, like the submarine fire subsiding under the waters of the deep. 22. The heaven, the earth, the air, the sky, the mountains, the rivers, and all the quarters of the globe, are subject to destruction like the dry fuel by the all-destroying fire of the last day. 23. Riches and relatives, friends, servants and affluence, are of no pleasure to him who is in constant dread of death. 24. All these are so long delightful to a sensible man, as the monster of death does not appear before the eye of his mind. 25. We have prosperity at one moment, succeeded by adversity at another; so we have health at one time, followed by sickness soon after. 26. What intelligent being is there, that is not misled by these delusions of the world, which represent things otherwise than what they are, and serve to bewilder the mind? 27. (The world is as varying) as the face of the skies; it is now as black as dark clay, and in the next moment bright with the golden hues of fair light. 28. It is now over-cast by azure clouds resembling the blue lotuses of the lake, and roaring loudly for a time and then being dumb and silent on a sudden: 29. Now studded with stars, and now glowing with the glory of the sun; then graced by the pleasant moonbeams, and at last without any light at all. 30. Who is there so sedate and firm, that is not terrified at these sudden appearances and their disappearance, and the momentary durations and final dissolution of worldly things? 31. What is the nature of this world, where we are overtaken by adversity at one moment, and elated by prosperity at another, where one is born at a time, and dies away at another? 32. One that was something else before, is born as a man in this life, and is changed to another state in course of a few days; thus there is no being that remains steadily in the same state. 33. A pot is made of clay, and cloth is made of cotton, and they are still the same dull materials of which they are composed: thus there is nothing new in this world that was not seen or known before, and that changes not its form. (_i.e._ All is but a formal and no material change). 34. The acts of creation and destruction, of diffusion, production, and sustentation follow one another, as the revolution of day and night to man. 35. It happens sometimes, that an impotent man slays a hero, and that hundreds are killed by one individual; so also a commoner becomes a noble man, and thus every thing is changeful in this varying world. 36. These bodies of men that are always changing their states, are as bodies of waters rising and falling in waves by motion of the winds.