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him repeats a pleasnt tale of some fairy city or like the coldnces of the water of sandy waste, and the lotus of ether [ether flower | said to be very fragrant, or like a sterile woman's beautiful son--all these are unreal yet they express a certain meaning ; so is this objective world really non-existent and discovered or manifested through illusion.
The subject is further illustrated by reference to the seven verses which tollow.
Like other mistaken with cloud; there The images several and many, Fight and quarrel with anger: This is discriminating its unreality. Anath whom does not dream croate mistake ? Who abandons bis former ideas ; and seeks knowledge Knows what the world is, [A creation of illusion and unreal]. Light of the sun falls upon all objects ; Who makes bis garland according to his taste, And wears it knowingly, is called
The good-mind, and that fits him well. 'Like aiming at a horned rabbit, or Persons moving in the sky. With garlands, tempting another To follow, and running again for it. Much begging no one gives to ; it Creates mutud quarrel ; and The beggar gets no benefit from it, So consider this world. With the (water of the waves of the sea seen in the
sky Building a city—the clouds, So with the cognition of the perfect Brahma, Make the world rest on It.
