28. As the heart becomes lighter and purer by means of the mind’s act of reasoning; so I ween its desires to grow weaker and thinner, like the light and fleeting clouds of autumn.
29. Admonition to the unrighteous proves as fruitless, as the blowing of winds against the falling rain. (i.e. Counsel to the wicked is as vain, as a blast of wind to drive the pouring rain).
30. I shall therefore try to rid myself of this false and vacant ignorance; as it is the admonition of the sástras, to get rid of ignorance by all means.
31. I find myself to be the inextinguishable lamp of intellect, and without my egoism or any desire in myself; and have no relation with the false ignorance, which is the root of egoism.
32. That this is I and that is another, is the false suggestion of our delusive ignorance; which, like an epidemic disease, presents us with such fallacies for our destruction.
33. It is impossible for the slender and finite mind to comprehend the nature of the infinite soul; as it is not possible for an elephant to be contained in a nut shell. (Lit.: in the crust of a bilva or bel fruit).
34. I cannot follow the dictate of my heart, which is a wide and deep cave, containing the desires causing all our misery.
35. What is this delusive ignorance, which, like the error of injudicious lads, creates the blunder of viewing the self-existent one, in the different lights of I, thou, he and other personalities.
36. I analysed my body at each atom from the head to foot, but failed to find what we call the “I” in any part of it, and what makes my personality. (It is the body, mind and soul taken together, that makes a person).
37. That which is the “I am” fills the whole universe, and is the only one in all the three worlds; it is the unknowable consciousness, omnipresent and yet apart from all.