47. I have thus fully explained to you, how you may come to know this creation as its creator--the Great Brahmá Himself; and have also expounded to you the means, whereby you may get rid of your impression of the phenomenal world. 48. Now rise ye Bráhmans and repair to your abodes, as the bees resort to their cells and calyxes of lotuses at the dusk of the day; go and perform your evening services, while I remain here in my pensive meditation, and absorbed in my spiritual ecstasy forever. CHAPTER CLXXXV. ADMONITION TO AND CLAIRVOYANCE OF KUNDA-DANTA. Argument:--The return of the interlocutors to the abodes; Demise of the brothers and enlightenment of Kunda-danta. Kunda-danta rejoined:--The old sage having said so far, closed his eyes in meditation; and he became as motionless as a statue or picture, without any action of his breath and mind. 2. And we prayed him with great fondness and endearment, yet he uttered not a word unto us; because he seemed to be so rapt in his abstraction, as to have become utterly insensible of the outer world. 3. We then departed, from that place, with our broken hearts and dejected countenances; and were received after a few days journey, by our gladsome friends at home. 4. We live there in joyous festivity, as long as the seven brothers were living; and passed our time in narrations of our past adventures, and relations of the old accounts of by gone times. 5. In course of time the eight brothers disappeared (perished) one by one, like the seven oceans at the end of the world, in the vast ocean of eternity; and were released like many of my friends also, from their worldly cares. 6. After sometime, the only friend that I had, sunk also like the setting sun in darkness; and I was left alone to bewail their loss in sorrow and misery at their separation. 7. I then repaired in the sorrow of my heart, to the devotee under the Kadamba tree; in order to derive the benefit of his advice, to dissipate my dolor. 8. There I waited on him for three months, until he was released from his meditation, when upon my humble request of him, he deigned to answer me as follows. 9. The devotee replied:--I can not pass a moment, without my employment in meditation; and must without any loss of time, resort to my wonted devotion again. 10. As for you, you can not derive the benefit of my transcendent advice to you; unless you engage yourself to practice my precepts with all diligence. 11. Now I tell you to repair to the city of Ayodhyá (Oudh), where the king Dasaratha reigns, and remains with his son Ráma (and other children and members of his royal family). 12. Do you now go to this Ráma, who has been attending on the lectures of the sage Vasishtha, the preceptor and priest of the royal family, and delivered before the princes assembled in the imperial court.