23. As the clouds disappear in the air, after pouring their waters in the rains; so doth the world disappear from the sight of men, who have come to the light of truth and knowledge of the soul. 24. Like the empty clouds of autumn and the water of the mirage, the phenomenal world loses its appearance, no sooner it is viewed by the light of right reason. 25. As solid gold is melted down to fluidity by hot fire, so the phenomenals all melt away to an aerial nothing, when they are observed by the keen eye of philosophy. 26. All solid substances in the three worlds, become rarefied air when they <are> put to the test of a rational analysis; just as the stalwart spectre of a demon, vanishes from the sight of the awakened child into nothing. 27. Conceptions of endless images, rise and fall of themselves in the mind; so the image of the world being but a concept of the mind, there is no reality in it, nor is there anything which has any density or massiveness in it (a mass being but the conception of an aggregate of minute particles and no more). 28. The knowledge and ignorance of the world, consist only in its conception and nescience in the mind; when the knowledge of its existence disappears from the understanding, where is there the idea of its massiveness any more in the mind. (So as in the insensibility of our sound sleep and swooning, we have no consciousness of it). 29. The world loses its bulk and solidity, in our knowledge of the state of our waking dream; when its ponderousness turns to rarity, as the gold melts to liquidity when it is put upon fire. 30. The understanding as it is (_i.e._ being left uncultivated), becomes dull and dense by degrees; as the liquid gold when left to itself, is solidified in a short time. 31. Thus one who in his waking state considers himself to be dreaming, and sees the world in its rarified state; comes to extenuate himself with all his desires and appetites, as a ponderous cloud is sublimated in autumn. 32. The wise man seeing all the visible beauties of nature which are set before his face, as extremely rare and of the appearance of dreams, takes no notice of nor relish in them. 33. Where is this rest of the soul, and where this turmoil of the spirit for wealth; their abiding in the one and same man, is as the meeting of sleep and wakefulness together, and the union of error and truth in the same person, and at the same time (which is impossible). 34. He who remains asleep to (or insensible of) the erroneous imaginations of his mind, acts freed from his false persuasion of the reality of the world. 35. Who is it, O high minded Ráma, that takes a pleasure in an unreality, or satisfies himself with drinking the false water of the mirage appearing before him. 36. The saintly sage, who rests in his knowledge of truth; looks upon the world <as> an infinite vacuum, beset with luminaries, which shines forth like the light of lamps set behind the windows.