29. If you do not heal the malady of your desire, by the medicine of your own efforts; then I think you will never find a more powerful balsam to remedy this your inveterate disease.
30. Should you be unable to put a check to your desire altogether, you must still try to do it by degrees, as a passenger never fails to get his goal even by slow paces in time.
31. He who does not try to diminish his desires day by day, is reckoned as the meanest of men, and is destined to live in misery every day.
32. Our cupidity is the causal seed of the crop of our misery in this world; and this seed being fried in the fire of our best reason, will no more vegetate in the ground of our breast.
33. The world is the field of our desires and the baneful sources of misery only, it is the extinction of them which is called nirvána; therefore never be tempted by the delusion of desire for your utter destruction.
34. Of what avail are the dictates of the sástras, and the precepts of our preceptors; if we fail to understand that, our samádhi or final rest consists in the extinction of our temporary desires.
35. He who finds the difficulty of checking his desires in his mind, it is hopeless for him to derive any good from the instructions of his preceptors, or the teachings of the sástras whatever.
36. It is the poison of avarice which proves the bane of human life, as the native forests of stags prove destructive to them, by being infested by huntsmen. (Hearts infested by avarice, are as detrimental to men; as forests infested by hunters are baneful to stags).
37. If one would not deal frivolously, with the acquisition of his self-knowledge (spirituality); he may but learn to extenuate his cravings, and he will thereby be led insensibly, to the acquirement of his spiritual knowledge.
38. Extinction of wish is the extirpation of anguish, and this is the sense of the nirvána bliss; therefore try to curtail your desires, and thereby to cut off your bondage, which will not be difficult for you to do, if you will but try to do so.