8.8.1 "Look at yourself in a pan of water. Anything that you do not understand of the soul, tell me."

Then the two looked in a pan of water.

Then the teacher said to the two: "What do you see?"

Then the two said: "We see everything here, Sir, a likeness corresponding exactly, even to the hair and finger-nails!"

8.8.2 Then the teacher said to the two: "Make yourselves well-ornamented, well-dressed, adorned, and look in a pan of water."

Then the two made themselves well-ornamented, well-dressed, adorned, and looked in a pan of water.

Then the teacher said to the two: "What do you see?"

8.8.3 Then the two said: "Just as we ourselves are here, Sir, well-ornamented, well-dressed, adorned, so there, Sir, well-ornamented, well-dressed, adorned."

"That is the likeness of the self," said he. "But the soul is immortal and fearless, and returns to its Lord."

Then with tranquil heart the two went forth.

8.8.4 Then the teacher glanced after them, and said: "They go without having comprehended, without having found the soul. Whosoever shall hold such a doctrine, be they of the righteous or be they of the rebellious, they shall perish."

Then with tranquil heart Virocana came to the rebellious. To them he then declared this doctrine: "Oneself is to be made happy here on earth. Oneself is to be waited upon. He who makes his own self happy here on earth, who waits upon himself, he obtains both worlds, both this world and the yonder."

8.8.5 Therefore even now here on earth they say of one who is not a giver, who is not a believer, who is not a worshipper, "Oh! devilish!" for such is the doctrine of the devils. They adorn the body of one deceased with what they have begged, with dress, with ornament, as they call it, for they think that thereby they will win yonder world.