39. As I remained at that spot, with this conviction of myself; I found myself endowed with a body, and it was as I took me to be. 40. With this belief (of my being an embodied being), I began to utter sounds; and these sounds were as void, as those of man, dreaming himself as flying in the air in his sleep. 41. This was the sound of a new born babe, uttering the sacred syllable _om_ at first; and thence it has become the custom to pronounce this word, in the beginning of sacred hymn. 42. Then I uttered some words as those of a sleeping person, and these words are called the _vyahrites_, which are now used in the Gáyatrí hymn. 43. Methought I now became as Brahmá, the author and lord of creation; and then with my mental part or mind, I thought of the creation in my imagination. 44. Finding myself so as containing the mundane system within me, I thought I was not a created being at all; because I saw the worlds in my own body, and naught besides without it. 45. Thus the world being produced, within this mind of mine; I turned to look minutely into it, and found there was nothing in reality, except an empty void. 46. So it is with all these worlds that you see, which are mere void, and no other than your imagination of them; and there is no reality whatever, in the existence of this earth and all other things that you see. 47. The worlds appear as the waters of the mirage, before the sight and to the knowledge of our consciousness; there is nothing outside the mind, and the mind sees every thing, in the pure vacuity of the divine mind. 48. There is no water in the sandy desert, and yet the mind thinks it sees it there; so the deluded sight of our understanding, sees the baseless objects of delusion, in the burning and barren waste of infinite void. 49. Thus there is no world in reality in the divine spirit, and yet the erring mind of man, sees it erroneously to be situated therein; it is all owing to the delusion of human understanding, which naturally leads us to groundless errors and fallacies. (Errors in the mind breed errors in thoughts). 50. The unreal appears, as the real extended world to the mind; in the same manner as the imaginary utopia appears before it, and as a city is seen in the dream of a sleeping man. 51. As one knows nothing of the dream of another sleeping by his side, without being able to penetrate into his mind; while the yogi sees it clearly, by his power of prying into the hearts of others. 52. So doth one know this world, who can penetrate into the mundane stone; where it represented as the reflexion of some thing in a mirror, which in reality is nothing at all. 53. And although the world appears, as an elemental substance to the naked eye; yet when it is observed in its true light, it disappears like the Otaria of the polar region, which is hidden under ever lasting darkness.