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Vyāsa said.
It is existence that creates the qualities, but the knower of the field abides; the Lord, like one indifferent, remains as all qualities are modified.
If endowed with its own nature, all that is created by this one with qualities, just as the spider creates thread, like a weaver creates threads.
Those that are destroyed do not return, and activity is not found. Thus, some conclude this, while others conclude that cessation is the case.
After carefully considering both, one should decide this according to one's own understanding. By this very procedure, the uterus will become great.
Having realized the eternal, beginningless and endless, a man should conduct himself without anger, without excessive joy, and always free from envy.
Thus, having firmly broken the knot of the heart made of intellect and thought, having crossed over, he was happy, free from grief, with all doubts cut asunder.
Just as men who have fallen from the earth would suffer, being immersed in a full river, so too, know that the ignorant are immersed in this world.
But the wise person, knowing reality, does not become exhausted as he moves about in the world. Thus, whoever realizes the self, attains only the knowledge of the self.
Thus, when a man understands and observes the coming and going of all beings, he gradually and properly attains supreme tranquility.
This, indeed, is the innate capability of a Brāhmaṇa in particular: self-knowledge and tranquility alone are sufficient; that is the supreme goal.
By understanding this, one becomes enlightened; what other characteristic of enlightenment is there? Knowing this, the wise who have fulfilled their purpose are liberated.
The wise do not experience the great fear that would be a very great fear for the unwise. Indeed, there is no greater path for anyone than that which is eternal for the wise.
A person who does not envy the mother of the world, but grieves upon observing that very thing. There, see those skilled ones who do not grieve; they know both what is done and not done.
An action performed without ulterior motive destroys the effects of previous actions. For such a doer, neither pleasure nor pain, nor both, are produced here.
