15. Then the lower classes comprise the children of darkness or ignorance—_tamas_; of whom the _támasas_ form the eleventh grade, and are said to be deprived of their liberation forever more. (These are the Rákshasas and demons of various orders). 16. There have been a few however among them, who have obtained their salvation by means of their divine knowledge, and their good acts during their life time (such as Prahláda, the son of a demon, and Karkotaka—the son of a Nága). 17. Next follows the twelfth order of _támasa-rájasa_, who combine in them the qualities of darkness and enlightenment, and who are liberated after a thousand births in their former demoniac state, and one hundred births in their progressive improvements. 18. Then comes the thirteenth order of _támas-támasi_ or those in darkest darkness, who have to transmigrate for millions of years both in their prior and later births, before they can have their liberation from the bondage of body. 19. Last comes the fourteenth order of beings, who continue in their state of gross ignorance (_atyanta—támasí_) forever, and it is doubted whether they can have their liberation at all. (All these classes of human beings have proceeded from Brahmá, whose life and spirit circulate in all of them; else they could neither live nor breathe). 20. All other masses of living beings also, have proceeded from the body of the great Brahmá, as the moving waves rise from the great body of waters. 21. And as the lamp flickering by its own heat, scatters its light on all sides; so does Brahmá glowing in himself, irradiate his beams in the shape of scintilla, to spread all over the universe: (which is the vacuity of Brahmá’s mind, and comprises the cosmos within it). 22. And as the sparks of fire are flung about by force of the burning flame; so do these multitudes of produced beings rise from the substance of Brahmá himself. 23. As the dust and filaments of mandara flowers, fly to and fill the air on all sides; and as the beams of the moon shoot out of its orb, to fill the four quarters of heaven and earth; so the minutiæ of Divine essence emanate from the Deity, and spread throughout the universe. 24. As the variegated arbor, produces its leaves and flowers of various hues from itself; so the varieties of created beings, spring from one Brahmá—the source of all. 25. As the gold ornaments are in relation to the metal gold of which they are made, and wherein they subsist, so Ráma! are all things and persons in relation to Brahmá, out of whom they have sprung and in whom they abide. 26. As the drops of water, are related to the pure water of the cascade, so Ráma, are all things related to the increate Brahmá, whence they issue as drizzling drops. 27. As the air in a pot and about a basin, is the same with the surrounding air of heaven; so are all individual objects the same, with the undivided spirit of the all-pervading Brahmá.