3. You are possessed of all the qualities of an enquirer, and I those of the speaker, in as much as there are gems in the ocean. 4. You have gained my son the _insouciance_ which is cognate with reason, like the humidity of the moonstone bearing its correlation with the gentle beams of the moon. 5. Ráma! your long and early practiced pure virtues and good qualities, have raised your fame, as the long stretching white fibers of the stalk exalt the spotless lotus. 6. Now hear the words I tell you Ráma; for you alone are fit to receive them, as the moon only is able to open the _Kumuda_ petals. 7. Whatever business or investigation is undertaken by any body, it must be brought to a happy close, tending to his peace and tranquility (or to his rest and quiet). 8. Had not there been the solace of philosophy for men of good understanding, what rational being could dare to bear the misery brought on in this world by ignorance. 9. All the faculties of the mind are absorbed in the contemplation of the Supreme, like the dissolution of the rocks of boundary mountains by the solar heat at the end of the (_Kalpa_) world. 10. Ráma! the intolerable cholic pain caused by this venomous world, is healed only by _yoga_ meditation, as the poison of snake-biting is removed by _Garuda_ incantations. 11. The capacity of _yoga_ is obtained by discussion of the Sástras in the company of good people, which alone can furnish us with the great charm of spiritual knowledge. 12. It must be owned that we lessen our woes by acting with reason: therefore reasonable men are never to be looked upon with disregard. 13. The reasoning man gets released from his worldly sickness, and quits his frame which is full of diseases, as a snake casts off his time worn slough; and looks with a placid mind and calm composure upon the magic scenes of the world. Hence the fully wise man is not subject to the misery of the imperfectly wise. 14. The rough and uneven pleasure of the world is but a disease to men, and stings them like a snake. It cuts them as a sword, and pierces them as a spear. It binds them fast as by a rope, and burns them as with the fire, and blindfolds their understanding as in the darkness of the night. It makes them as prostrate and dull as a slab of stone. It destroys one’s prudence and lowers his position. It casts them into the pit of error, and torments them with avarice. Thus there is almost no kind of trouble which does not betide worldly minded men. 15. Worldliness is as dangerous a disease as cholera, which unless it is healed in time, is sure to trouble its patient with the torments of hell:—