35. It is the shrine within the very house and on the same spot, that contains the whole world which you are seeing all about you. 36. This abode of yours is situated in the same place, and within the clear firmament of your mind. 37. It is a false notion of your mind, which you have gained by your habitual mode of thinking, that you are born in your present state, of the race of Ixáku. 38. It is mere imagination, which has made you to suppose yourself to be named so and so, and that such and such persons were your progenitors, and that you had been a boy of ten years. 39. That your father became an ascetic in the woods, and left you in the government of the realm. And that you have subjugated many countries under your dominion, and are now reigning as the lord paramount over them. 40. And that you are ruling on earth with these ministers and officers of yours, and are observant of the sacrificial rites, and a just ruler of your subjects. 41. You think that you have passed seventy years of your life, and that you are now beset by very formidable enemies. 42. And that having waged a furious battle, you have returned to this abode of yours, where you are now seated and intend to adore the goddesses, that have become your guests herein. 43. You are thinking that these goddesses will bless you with your desired object, because one of them has given you the power of recollecting the events of your former births. 44. That these goddesses have opened your understanding like the blossom of a lotus, and that you have the prospect of getting your riddance from all doubts. 45. That you are now at peace and rest, and enjoy the solace of your solity; and that your long continued error (of this world), is now removed for ever. 46. You remember the many acts and enjoyments of your past life, in the body of prince Padma, before you were snatched away by the hand of death. 47. You now perceive in your mind, that your present life is but a shadow of the former, as it is the same wave, that carries one onward, by its rise and fall. 48. The incessant current of the mind flows as the stream of a river, and leads a man, like a weed, from one whirlpool into another. 49. The course of life now runs singly as in dreaming, and now conjointly with the body as in the waking state, both of which leave their traces in the mind, at the hour of death. 50. The sun of the intellect being hid under the mist of ignorance, there arises this network of the erroneous world, which makes a moment appear as a period of hundred years. 51. Our lives and deaths are mere phantoms of imagination, as we imagine houses and towers in aerial castles and icebergs. 52. The world is an illusion, like the delusion of moving banks and trees to a passenger in a vessel on water, or a rapid vehicle on land; or as the trembling of a mountain or quaking of the earth, to one affected by a convulsive disease.