6. Being viewed in its true light, there is nothing as myself or thyself; it is a fallacy of our understanding, that makes me think myself as Punya and thee as Pávana. 7. Who is thy father and who thy son, who thy mother and who thy friend? One Supreme-self pervades all infinity, whom callest thou the self, and whom the not self (_i.e._ thine and not thine). 8. If thou art a spiritual substance (linga saríra), and hast undergone many births, then thou hadst many friends and properties in thy past lives, why dost not think of them also? 9. Thou hadst many friends in the flowery plains, where thou hadst thy pasture in thy former form of a stag; why thinkest not of those deer, who were once thy dear companions? 10. Why dost thou not lament for thy lost companions of swans, in the pleasant pool of lotuses, where thou didst dive and swim about in the form of a gander? 11. Why not lament for thy fellow arbors in the woodlands, where thou once stoodest as a stately tree among them? 12. Thou hadst thy comrades of lions on the rugged craigs of mountains, why dost not lament for them also? 13. Thou hadst many of thy mates among the fishes, in the limpid lakes decked with lotuses; why not lament for thy separation from them? 14. Thou hadst been in the country of Dasárna (confluence of the ten rivers), as a monkey in the grey and green woods: a prince hadst thou been in land of frost; and a raven in the woods of Pundra. 15. Thou hadst been an elephant in the land of Haihayas, and an ass in that of Trigarta; thou hadst become a dog in the country of Salya, and a bird in the wood of sarala or sál trees. 16. Thou hadst been a pípal tree on the Vindhyan mountains, and a wood insect in a large oak (bata) tree; thou hadst been a cock on the Mandara mountain, and then born as a Bráhman in one of its caverns (the abode of Rishis). 17. Thou wast a Bráhman in Kosala, and a partridge in Bengal; a horse hadst thou been in the snowy land, and a beast in the sacred ground of Brahmá at Pushkara (Pokhra). 18. Thou hadst been an insect in the trunk of a palm tree, a gnat in a big tree, and a crane in the woods of Vindhya, that art now my younger brother. 19. Thou hadst been an ant for six months, and lain within the thin bark of a _bhugpetera_ tree in a glen of the Himálayan hills, that art now born as my younger brother. 20. Thou hadst been a millepede in a dunghill at a distant village; where thou didst dwell for a year and half, that art now become my younger brother. 21. Thou wast once the youngling of a Pulinda (a hill tribe woman), and didst dwell on her dugs like the honey sucking bee on the pericarp of a lotus. The same art thou now my younger brother. 22. In this manner my boy, wast thou born in many other shapes, and hadst to wander all about the Jambudvípa, for myriads of years: And now art thou my younger brother.