3. You who are replete with the entire grace of this quality, should now attend to the words, that I say, to remove the errors of your mind. 4. He, the arbour of whose merits is bending down with the load of its fruits, feels a desire to hear these words for the sake of his salvation. 5. It is the noble minded only and not the base, that are receptacles of grand and holy sermons conferring the knowledge of their future state. 6. This collection consisting of thirty-two thousand stanzas, is deemed as containing the essence of the means conducing to liberation, and conferring the final annihilation (of our being). 7. As a lighted lamp presents its light to every waking man, so does this work effect the ultimate extinction of every person whether he would like it or not. 8. One’s knowledge of this work whether by his own perusal or hearing of it from the rehearsal of others, tends to the immediate obliteration of his errors and augmentation of his delight, as it is done by the holy river of heaven (Ganges). 9. As the fallacy of a snake in the rope is removed by examining it, so the fallacy of the reality of the world is removed by perusal of this work, which gives peace to one who is vexed with and tired of the world. 10. It contains six books all fraught with sentences full of reason, and each distinct from the other in its import. It has many verses containing chosen examples on all subjects. 11. The first book treats of Indifference, and causes the growth of apathy (in the mind) like that of a tree in the desert soil. 12. It contains one thousand and five hundred stanzas, which being well considered in the mind, must impart a purity to it like the lustre of a gem after its polish. 13. The next book dwells on the conduct of one longing after his liberation, and contains a thousand slokas arranged in judicious order. 14. It describes the nature of men desiring their liberation. Then follows the book on the creation of the world, and filled with narratives and examples (of various kinds). 15. It has seven thousand stanzas teaching sound philosophy about the spectator and spectacle of the world in the forms of—_I and thou_, designated the _ego_ and _non-ego_. 16. It contains a description of the production of the world from its state of non-existence. A diligent attention to this chapter will convey a full knowledge of this world into the mind of the hearer. 17. This _ego_ and _non-ego_, and this vast expanse with all the worlds, space and mountains, are (to be viewed) as having no form nor foundation, and as there are no such things (in reality). 18. There are no elements as the earth and others which exist in our fancy only, and are like phantoms appearing in a dream, or as aerial castles and chimeras of the mind.