26. The princes then invited three Bráhmans (childhood, youth and age) to the fare prepared by them, two of whom (childhood and youth) were bodiless; and the third (_i.e._ old age) had no mouth wherewith to eat. 27. The mouthless Bráhman took a hundred dronas of the rice and eat it up, because he devoured the child and youth, and the princes took the remainder of the Bráhman’s food for their diet (which was nothing). 28. The three princes having refreshed themselves with the relics of the Bráhman’s food; took their rest in the same house of their next abode, and then went out in their journey of hunting after new abodes (or repeated transmigrations). 29. Thus I have related to you, O Ráma! the whole of the story of the boy and princes; now consider well its purport in your mind, and you will become wise thereby. 30. After the nurse had finished her relation of the pretty parable, the boy seemed glad at what he had heard (though it is plain without understanding its import). 31. I have told you this story, O Ráma! in connection with my lecture on the subject of the mind; and it will serve to explain to you, the fabrication of the mind of this imaginary being of the world. 32. This air-built castle of the world, which has come to be taken for a reality, is like the story of the body, but a false fabrication of the old nurse’s imagination. (Or old grand-mother’s tale, and giving a name and form to an airy nothing). 33. It is the representation of the various thoughts and ideas of our minds, which exhibit themselves to view, according to the notions we have of them in our states of bondage and liberation. (_i.e._ Our bondage to gross bodies, exhibits them in their grosser form, and our liberation from the materialistic, shows them in their subtile and immaterial shapes). 34. Nothing is really existent except the creations of our imagination, and it is our fancy which fashions all the objects in their peculiar fantastic forms. (Everything appears to us as we fancy it to be; whereby the same thing is viewed in a different light, not only by different persons; but by the same person in a different state of mind). 35. The heavens, earth, sky and air, as also the rivers, mountains and the sides and quarters of the sky, are all creations of our fancy, like the visions in our dreams; which join and disjoin and fashion the views in their phantastic forms. (Imagination or phantasy, is a faculty representative of the phenomena of internal or external worlds. Sir William Hamilton). 36. As the princes, the rivers and the future city, were mere creations of the nurse’s imagination, so the existence of the visible world, is but a production of the imaginative power of man. (The nurse’s representations of the princes &c., were rather the prosopopœia or personifications of her abstract thoughts; as the material world is a manifestation of the ideal, and called by the sufis _suwari manavi_ and _suwari zahiri_).