33. Therefore it is the nature of men, to be prepossessed with the idea of their future existence; and next their growing desire for having certain forms of bodies for themselves, leads them to the error of seeing several shapes before them. 34. It is then the abstaining from this desire, that removes the maladies of our errors of the looker, looking and the look (_i.e._ of the subjective and the objective); while the retaining of this desire leads us, to the viewing of this apparition of the world ever before us. 35. So it was the feeling of desire at first, which led the supreme spirit of Brahmá to the creation of the world; but its abandonment causes our _nirvána_-release, while its retention leads us to the error of the world. 36. This desire sprang at first in the Divine mind of Brahmá, and not in the immutable spirit of Brahma; and I feel this desire rising now in me, for seeing the true and supreme Brahma in all and every where. 37. All these knowledge that you derive here from, is said to form what is called the nirvána-extinction by the wise; and that which is not learnt herein, is said to constitute the bondage of the world. 38. This is the true knowledge to see God every where, it is self-evident in our inmost soul, and does not shine without it; (for all without is error and ignorance—_avidyá_). 39. The self-consciousness of our liberation—_muktásmi_, is what really makes us so; but the knowledge that we are bound to this earth—_baddhásmi_, is the source of all our woe, which require great pains to be removed. 40. The awakening of our consciousness of the world, is the cause of our being enslaved to it; and its hybernation in the trance of _samádhi_, is our highest felicity. By being awake to the concerns of the world, you only find the unreal appearing as real to you (for every thing here, is but deception and delusion). 41. Lying dormant in holy trance, without the torpidity of insensibility, is termed our _moksha_ or spiritual liberation; while our wakefulness to the outer world, is said to be the state of our bondage to it. 42. Now let your _nirvána_ be devoid of all desire, and from trouble, care and fear; let it be a clear and continuous revery without any gap or cessation, without the scruples of unity and duality; and be of the form of spacious firmament, ever calm and clear and undisturbed in itself. CHAPTER LXXX. THE WORLD PROVED TO BE A DELUSION. Argument:—Description of ultimate Dissolution according to Rational and Materialistic Philosophy. Vasishtha continued:—Afterwards the celestials that were present in the heaven of Brahmá, vanished away and became invisible, as a lamp with its weakened (_i.e._ burnt out), wick or thread. 2. Now the twelve suns, having disappeared in the body of Brahmá; their burning beams burnt away the heaven of Brahmá, as they had burnt down the earth and other bodies.