Válmíki said:--O most intelligent Bharadwája, and the chief of my pupils, you have now heard how the great Ráma and others, came to the knowledge of the knowable One (that is only to be known), and passed across this vale of misery and sorrow, by their attention to these lectures. 2. Do you thus fix your sight to the light of Brahma, and conduct yourself gladly, by abandoning all your affections and cares of this world, and by remaining dauntless with your living liberation and tranquility of mind. 3. Know, O thou sinless one, that the learned and the meek, that do not mix with the society of worldly men, but remain steady as Ráma and others in their right principles, are never liable to be deluded although they are beset by temptations on all sides. 4. Thus these men of great natures, as the king Dasaratha and the prince Ráma and his brothers, together with companions, have attended to the state of the living liberated (even in their life time). 5. Thou my son Bharadwája! that art naturally of a liberal mind, hast now become more liberated at present, by thy hearing of these sermons on the salvation of our souls. 6. It is possible even for boys to obtain their liberation, by their attention to those holy lectures, as the most evident and surest means to salvation; and cannot therefore fail to convince thee of the truth thereof. 7. As the high minded and sinless and sorrowless sons of Raghu’s race, have attained to their holy state of perfection and self-liberation; so do thou also obtain that best and highest state, by your attending to the lectures of the divine sage Vasishtha. 8. It is by advice of the good and service under the great, as also by means of humble inquiries to and explications of the learned; that weak men of good understandings, can know the knowable, as the Rághavas and others did under Vasishtha. 9. The ties of avarice and affection that have fast bound the hearts of the ignorant (to this world); do all tend to debar them like playful boys from inquiring into the means of their liberation, until they become too old to benefit by their knowledge. 10. Those that can discern the minds of high minded men, can only come to their knowledge of truth; and such men only have no more to return to this world of woe; and this is the substance of all that I can speak to thee (_i.e._ know and have the minds of the great, in order to become as great thyself, so says Gay in his Fables. (Hast thou fathomed Tully’s mind, and the vast sense of Plato’s head)). 11. Having first received your instruction from the preceptor, you must weigh well and digest its meaning in yourself; and then communicate its sense, to the most sensible and intelligent student. This is said by sages and saints, as the trivium of science; know this and you need no more, to become wise when your boyhood is over.