Vasishtha continued:—The false desires which continually rise in the breast; are as the appearances of false moons in the sky, and should be shunned by the wise. 2. They rise in the minds of the unwise amidst their ignorance; but every thing which is known only by its name and not in actuality, can not have its residence in the minds of wise people. (Nominalism as opposed to Realistic Platonism). 3. Be wise, O Ráma; and do not think like the ignorant; but consider well all that I tell you;—there is no second moon in the sky, but it appears so only by deception of our optical visions. 4. There exists nothing real or unreal any where, except the only true essence of God; as there is no substantiality in the continuity of the waves, besides the body of waters. 5. There is no reality in any thing, whether existent or non-existent, all which are mere creations of your shadowy ideality; do not therefore impute any shape or figure to the eternal, boundless and pure spirit of God. 6. You are no maker nor master of anything, then why deem any act or thing as your own (_mamatá—meity_?) You know not what these existences are, and by whom and wherefore they are made. 7. Neither think yourself as actor, because no actor can attempt to do anything. Discharge whatever is your duty, and remain at your ease with having done your part. 8. Though you are the actor of an action, yet think not yourself as such, minding your inability to do or undo any thing: for how can you boast yourself as the actor, when you know your inability for action. 9. If truth is delectable and untruth is odious, then remain firm to what is good; and be employed in your duties (in the path of truth and goodness). 10. But as the whole world is a gallery, a magic and an unreality; then say what reliance is there in it, and what signifies pleasurableness or unpleasurableness to any body. 11. Know Ráma, this ovum of the world to be a delusion, and being inexistent in itself, appears as a real existence to others. 12. Know this busy sphere of the world, which is so full with its inessence; to be an ideal phantasm presented for the delusion of our minds. 13. It is like the beautiful bamboo plant, all hollow within, and without pith and marrow in the inside; and like the curling waves of the sea, both of which are born to perish without being uprooted from the bottom. (It is impossible to root out the bamboo as well as the rising wave of the water). 14. This world is as volatile as the air and water flying in the air, and hardly to be tangible or held fast in the hand; and as precipitous as the water-fall in its course (hurling down and sweeping away everything before it). 15. It appears as a flowery garden, but never comes to any good use at all; so the billowy sea in the mirage, presents the form of water, without allaying our thirst.