Kāla

1. O Sage, those that are seen as celestial beings (surās), rakshasas, and humans are no different from Brahman.  Brahman is the truth.  All else is false and untruth.

2. Because of a wrong perception, arising out of a false self-deformation like ‘I am not Brahman’, human beings slip into an abysmal state.

3. Though part of the sea of Brahman, by a false thought that they are different from Brahman, people get fiercely deluded and slip into the regions of the world.

4. When knowledge of Brahman gets polluted and distorted by thinking, that forms the source of all action and works by human beings.  They are then pushed into works and action.

5. O muni, the fierce, clenching source of all works is the set of mental fixations and perceptions (about truth and reality) in the mind.

6. These mentally determined and directed works are as wide as the world.  They clinch, undermine the stone-like body-patterns.  They make these (innumerable) bodies, weep, smile, bind and gallop.

7. These vibrations extend over the entire range from Brahma to the tiny (atom).  Like wind waves, these vibrations (conscious beings) jump about joyfully, become extinguished, get distorted and display gentle smiles.

8. Some among these are extremely pure like Hari, Hara and such.  Some are meanly deluded like humans, celestials and serpents.

9. Some are totally deluded like trees and such.  Some are stupid like insects and mosquitoes.

10. Some loll and roll like straw on the great expanse of Brahman-ocean and thrown afar on the surface.  They are beings like snakes and hills.

11. Some attain god-hood with an equal and balanced perception possessing a harmonious and clean attitude and quality.  Even so they are also tormented by that old rat called fate.

12. Some like Brahma and others acquire and assimilate the spirit of Brahman-ocean and become equal to Brahman.

13. Some with very little delusion, attain unseen to reach into the Brahman-ocean and stay at that level.

14. Some lead unfertile, sterile and unproductive lives driven by manifest, evident and splendid inertia.  These follow their many such lives with millions of future births to be enjoyed!

15. Some fall from heights to lowly downs like a fruit slipping from a hand.  Some ascend from one height to another while some dip deeper and deeper into lowly states.

16. This livahood is replete with and capable of creating innumerable destructive joys and griefs.  This is due to the loss of memory (or forgetting) that original Supreme state.  Once that recollection is restored (or comes) livahood disappears.  It is like the disappearance of problem of venom (of a snake), the moment one thinks ‘Garuda’