67. Those who vainly subject themselves to the false apparition of the mind, are mostly men of unsound understandings, and bring fulminations on themselves from the full-moon of the pure soul.
68. Remain firm as thou art with thyself (soul), by casting afar thy fancied and fanciful mind from thee; and be freed from the thoughts of the world, by being settled in the thought of the Supreme Soul.
69. They who follow a nullity as the unreal mind, are like those fools who shoot at the inane air, and are cast into the shade.
70. He that has purged off his mind, is indeed a man of great understanding; he has gone across the error of the existence of the world, and become purified in his soul. We have considered long, and never found anything as the impure mind in the pure soul.
CHAPTER CXXII.
Ascertainment of the Self or Soul.
Argument. Description of the grounds of knowledge, vanity of fears and sorrows, and the natures of the intellect and soul.
Vasishtha said (Prose). After the birth of a man and a slight development of his understanding, he should associate the company of good and wise men.
2. There is no other way except by the light of Sástras and association with the good and wise, to ford over the river of ignorance, which runs in its incessant course flowing in a thousand streams.
3. It is by means of reasoning that man is enabled to discern what is good for him, and what he must avoid to do.
4. He then arrives to that ground of reason which is known as good will, or a desire to do what is good and keep from what is bad and evil.