6. In this way of refining your mind from its prepossession of gross ideas, you will come to find the erroneous conception of a prime male (ádipurusha), as that of Brahmá (or Adam) as the first creative power, to be as false as the water in the mirage. 7. The great grandfather of the world being a nullity, the creation of all creatures by him (who is thence called _Prajápatih_ or lord of creatures); is likewise as false and null, as it is absurd for an impossibility to come into being. 8. The perception of a thing _in esse_, is as false as the conception of water in the mirage; a little reflexion is enough to remove this error, like the mistake of silver in cockles and conch-shells. 9. Any work which appears to exist without its cause, is only a phantom of fallacy, and has no essential form whatever in reality. 10. Whatever is done by one's erroneous knowledge or mistake of a thing, comes to be of no use to him; as the attempt to fill a pot with the water of the mirage, proves to be utterly vain. 11. Sikhidhwaja said:--Why can't we call the supreme Brahma, to be the cause of Brahmá--the first creator of the world who is called the son of God, the one unborn and without end, and the inexpressible and everlasting. 12. Kumbha replied:--The God Brahma, being neither the cause nor the effect of any action, is but an invariable unity and transcendent spirit, and is never the cause or effect of anything. 13. How can the incomprehensible and unknowable Brahma, be designated as the creator, when he is not predicable by any of the predicates of the creator or created or as the instrument or cause of anything. 14. The world having no separate cause, is no separate product of any causality whatever; it is no duality but one with the unity, without its beginning or end, and co-eternal with the eternal one. (_To pan_--God is all in all). 15. He that is inconceivable and unknowable, is perfect felicity, tranquillity and ever undecaying, and can never be the active or passive agent of anything, on account of the immutability of his nature. 16. Hence there is nothing as a creation, and the visible world is but a nihility, and the Lord God is neither an active nor passive agent, but quite still and full of bliss. 17. There being no causal power, the world is not the production of any body; it is our error only that this world as a production without any assignable cause. 18. The uncaused world is the product of nothing, and therefore nothing in itself; for if it be the production of nobody, it is a nullity like its cause also. 19. The non-existence of anything or the not being of everything (except that of the supreme Being), being proved as a certain truth; we can have no conception of anything, and the absence of such conception, it is in vain to suppose the existence of an egoism or tuism.