59. It is strange that something prone to the doing of evil (deception), and unable to come to light and flying from sight, and having no bodily form whatever, should thus darken the world. 60. It is a wonder that one acting so miserly, and consorting with the mean and vile, and ever hiding herself in darkness, should thus domineer over the world. 61. It is wonderful that fallacy which is attended with incessant woe and peril, and which is devoid of sense and knowledge, should keep the world in darkness. 62. It is to be wondered that error arising from anger and avarice, creeping crookedly in darkness, and liable to instant death (by its detection), should yet keep the world in blindness. 63. It is surprising that error which is a blind, dull and stupid thing itself, and which is falsely talkative at all times, should yet mislead others in the world. 64. It is astonishing, that falsehood should betray a man, after attaching so close to him as his consort, and showing all her endearments to him; but flying at the approach of his reason. 65. It is strange that man should be blinded by the womanish attire of error, which beguiles the man but dares not to look at him face to face. 66. It is strange that man is blinded by his faithless consort of error, which has no sense nor intelligence, and which dies away without being killed. 67. Tell me Sir, how this error is to be dispelled, which has its seat in the desires, and is deeply rooted in the recesses of the heart and mind, and lead us to the channels of endless misery, by subjecting us to repeated births and deaths, and to the pains and pleasures of life. CHAPTER CXIV. DESCRIPTION OF ERROR. Argument. Spiritual knowledge, the only means of dispelling worldly errors, temporal desires and cares. Ráma repeated:—Tell me sir, how this stony blindness of man, is to be removed, which is caused by the train of ignorance or delusion called _avidyá_. 2. Vasishtha replied:—As the particles of snow, melt away at the sight of the sun, so is this ignorance dispelled in a moment, by a glance of the holy spirit. 3. Till then doth ignorance continue to hurl down the soul and spirit, as from a precipice to the depths of the world, and expose them to woes, as thick as thorny brambles. 4. As long as the desire of seeing the spirit, does not rise of itself in the human soul, so long there is no end of this ignorance (_avidyá_) and insensibility (_Moha_). 5. The sight of the supreme Spirit, destroys the knowledge of our self-existence, which is caused by our ignorance; as the light of the sun, destroys the shadows of things. 6. The sight of the all-pervading God, dispels our ignorance in the same manner, as the light of the twelve zodiacal suns (all shining at once), puts the shadows of night to flight from all sides of the horizon.