26. All these phenomena and their sight are simply erroneous, and appertain to the vacuous intellect alone; and are exhibited as foliage of the aerial tree (which I know is false and nothing). 27. The intellect and vacuum are identic and of the same nature with themselves, and this I came to understand from the entire absence of all my desires. 28. These worlds that are linked together in the chain of the universe, and lie within the limits of the ten sides of it, are but One Brahma only; and the infinite vacuity, with all its parts of space and time, and all forms of things and actions, are the substance and essence of Brahma only. 29. In this manner, I saw in manifold worlds that were manifested before me, many a great _muni_ like myself; all sons of the great Brahmá, and named as Vasishthas, and men of great holiness and piety. 30. I saw many revolutions of the tretá age, with as many Rámas in them; I marked the rotation of many Satya and Dwápara periods (the golden and brazen ages) of the world, which I counted by hundreds and thousands. 31. From my common sense of concrete particulars, I saw this changing state of created things; but by the powers of my reflexion and generalization, I found them all to be but one Brahma, extended as the infinite vacuity from all eternity. 32. It is not to be supposed, that the world subsists in Brahma or He in this (as either the container or contained of the whole); but Brahma is the uncreated and endless all himself, and whatever bears a name or is thought of in our understanding. 33. He is like a block of silent stone, that bears no name or epithet; but is of the form of pure light, which is termed the world also. 34. This light shines within the sphere of the infinite intellect, which is beyond the limit of our finite intelligence; it manifests itself in the form of the world, which is as formless as the other, and is as unknown to us, as anything in our dreamless sleep. 35. Brahma is no other than himself, and all else is only his reflexion; His light is the light of the world, and shows us all things like the solar light. 36. It is by that light, that these thousands of worlds appear to view; and that we have the notion of heat in the lunar disk, and of cold in the solar orb(?) 37. We see some creatures that see in the dark, and do not see in the day light; such are the owls and bats (asses?), and so there are men of the same kind. 38. There are many here, that are lost by their goodness, while there are others, who thrive and ascend to heaven by their wickedness; some <that> come <to> life by drinking of poison, and many that die by the taste of nectar. 39. Whatever a thing appears to be by itself, or whatsoever is thought of it in the understanding of another, the same comes to occur and is presented to the lot of every one, be it good or evil.