32. The mind being destroyed (i.e. all its function, being suspended), the soul attains its tranquility, and the light of the intellect shines forth in the cavity of the heart.
33. Hold fast the discus of reason, and cut off the bias of your mind; be sure that no disease will have the power to molest you, if you can have the good sense to despise the objects of pleasure, which are attended by pain. (All pleasure is followed by pain. Or: Pleasure leads to pain, and pain succeeds pleasure).
34. By lopping the members of the mind, you cut it off altogether; and these being egoism and selfishness which compose the essence of the mind. Shun your sense that ‘it is I’ and ‘these are mine.’
35. Want of these feelings, casts down the mind like a tree felled by the axe; and disperses it like a scattered cloud from the autumnal sky.
36. The mind is blown away by its destitution of egoism (Ahantá) and meitatism (mamatá), like a cloud by the winds. (Unconsciousness of one’s egoism and personality, is the tantamount to his utter extinction, and unification with the one universal Soul).
37. It is dangerous to wage a war, against winds and weapons, and fire and water, in order to obtain the objects <of> our worldly desire; but there is no danger whatever in destroying the growing soft and tender desires of the mind. (It is easier to govern one’s self than to suppress his enemies).
38. What is good, and what is not so, is well known for certain even to boys; (i.e. the immutability of good and evil is plain to common and simple understandings); therefore employ your mind to what is good, as they train up children in the paths of goodness. (Sow good betimes, to reap its reward in time. If good we plant not, vice will fill the place; and rankest weeds, the richest soils deface).
39. Our minds are as inveterate and indomitable, as ferocious lions of the forest; and they are true victors, who have conquered these, and are thereby entitled to salvation. (Govern your restless mind, and you govern the rest of your kind).
40. Our desires are as fierce lions, with their insatiable thirst after lucre: and they are as delusive as the mirage of the desert, by leading us to dangers.
41. The man that is devoid of desires, cares for nothing, whether the winds may howl with the fury of storms; or the seas break their bounds, or the twelve suns (of the Zodiac) rise at once to burn the universe.