6. Their observer was Reason personified in myself, and it was I only and no other person, that could discern the folly of their minds by my guiding reason. 7. It is my business to awaken those drowsy minds to the light of reason, as it is the work of the sun to open the lotus-buds to bloom, by his enlivening rays. 8. My counsels have prevailed on some minds and hearts, which have received them with attention; and have turned them away from earthly broils, to the way of true contentment and tranquility. 9. But there were others that paid no attention to my lectures through their great ignorance; but fell down into the pit, upon being chid by me with reproofs and rebukes. 10. Those deep and dark pits were no other than the pits of hell and the plantain groves of which I have told you, were the gardens of Paradise. 11. Know these to be the seats of those minds which long for heavenly joys, and the dark pits to be the abode of hellish hearts, which can never get their release from those darksome dungeons. 12. Those who having once entered the plantain grove, do not come out any more from it; know them to be the minds of the virtuous, and fraught with all their virtues. 13. Those which having fallen into the _Karanja_ thickets, were unable to extricate themselves from the thorns; know them to be the minds of men, that are entangled in the snares of the world. 14. Some minds which were enlightened with the knowledge of truth, got released from the snares; but the unenlightened are bound to repeated transmigrations in different births. 15. The souls which are subjected to metempsychosis, have their rise and fall in repetition, from higher to lower births, and the _vice-versa_ likewise. 16. The thick thicket of _Karanja_ brambles, represents the bonds of conjugal and family relations; they are the source of various human desires, which are springs of all other woe, difficulty and dangers. 17. The minds that have been confined in the _Karanja_ bushes are those, that are repeatedly born in human bodies, and are repeatedly entangled into domestic attachments from which all other animals are quite at large. 18. O support of Raghu’s race! the plantain grove which I told you was cooling with moonbeams; know the same to be the refreshing arbour of heaven, which gives delight to the soul. 19. Those persons are placed here, who have their bodies fraught with virtuous deeds and edified by persevering devotion and austerities, and whose souls are elevated above others. 20. Those ignorant, thoughtless and unmindful men, that slighted my advice, were themselves slighted by their own minds, which were deprived of the knowledge of their own souls and of their reason. 21. Those who told me, “we are undone at your sight, and you are our greatest enemy”; were demented fools, and melting away with their lamentations (for having disregarded my counsels).