23. He that puts a limit to his soul or átmá, which is unbounded and infinite, both surely reduce his magnanimity or garimá to the minuteness or anima by his own making.
24. If there be anything in the world beside the oneself, that may be thine or worth thy desiring, thou mayst long to have it; but all things being but parts of the universe, there is nothing particular for any one to have or seek.
25. Reliance on earthly things is the source of unhappiness, while our disinterestedness with all things, is the fountain of everlasting felicity.
26. As long as the Asuras are independent of worldly things, they must remain invincible; but being dependent on them, they will perish as a swarm of gnats in the flame of wild fire.
27. It is the inward desire of man that makes him miserable in himself, and became subdued by others; otherwise the worm-like man is as firm as a rock. (Cringing avarice makes one a slave to others, but its want makes a lion of a weak man).
28. Where there is any desire in the heart, it is thickened and hardened in time; as every thing in nature increases in its bulk in time; but not so the things that are not in existence, as the want of desires (i.e. all what exists, has its increase likewise, but a nullity can have no increase).
29. Do you, O Indra! try to foster both the egoistic selfishness, as well as the ambition of Dáma and others for their universal dominion, if you want to cause their destruction.
30. Know, it is avarice which is the cause of the poverty, and all dangers to mankind; just as the Karanja tree is the source of its bitter and pernicious fruits.
31. All those men who rove about under the bondage of avarice, have bid farewell to their happiness, by subjecting themselves to misery.
32. One may be very learned and well-informed in every thing, he may be a noble and great man also, but he is sure to be tied down by his avarice, as a lion is fettered by his chain.