But, mark me, Illusion and Faith are both feminine, as everyone knows; further, Faith is beloved of Raghubira, while poor Illusion is no more than a dancing-girl.

Because Faith stands high in Rama’s favour, Illusion is greatly afraid of her and is confounded at the very sight of anyone in whose heart faith in Rama abides, incomparable, irreproachable and ever unobstructed.

Over such an one she cannot exercise her authority; Knowing this, the most enlightened sages solicit Faith, the fountain of every blessing.

No one can grasp this mystery of Raghunatha all at once; but whoever by his grace does understand it can never even in sleep fall a prey to delusion.

Hear now, O wisest of birds, yet another distinction between knowledge and faith, the hearing of which induces an uninterrupted love for Rama’s feet.

Attend, my friend, to this unutterable romance, which can be understood but not expressed. The individual soul is a part of God, immortal, conscious, untainted by illusion and by nature perfectly blissful.

Such a soul, my lord, has allowed itself to be dominated by illusion and is trapped like a parrot or a monkey; the conscious and the unconscious are bound with a knot which, though unreal is difficult to untie.