CHAPTER XI.
On Truth and Right Knowledge.
Argument:—Subjection of the senses followed by the government of the Mind; and Indifference to visible objects.
Bhusunda continued:—He is said to be situated in the seat of the Supreme, who has his mind unmoved at the stroke of a weapon of his bare body, as also at the touch of a form with his naked person. (One must practice his self-controul until he attains to this state of insensibility of both his body and mind).
2. One must strive by exercise of his manly powers and patience, to practice his rigid hebetude or stoicity, as long as he attains to his somnolence or hypnotism over all visible appearances. (Hypnotism is asleep over the phenomenal, but wakeful to the spiritual).
3. The wise man who is acquainted with the truths of nature, is not to be thwarted back by the severest tribulation and persecution; as the heaving waves of the lake, cannot submerge the lotus that stands firm amidst its water.
4. He who is impassive as the empty air, to the strokes of weapons on his person, and unaffected by the embraces of beauties; is the only person who sees inwardly what is worth seeing: (though he is outwardly as insensible as a block of stone).
5. As poison breeds the rust in itself, which is not different from the nature of poison.
6. So the infinity of souls which are produced in the Supreme spirit, retain the nature of their original; and which they are capable of knowing.
7. As the insect that is born in the poison, does not die by the same; so the human soul which is produced by the eternal soul, is not subject to death, nor does it forsake its own nature, though it takes a grosser form like the vile figure of the poisonous insects.
8. Things born in or produced by Brahma, are of the same nature with itself, though different from it in appearance; such is the rust and mustiness of meat, which adheres to the food and appears as otherwise. So the world subsisting in Brahma, seems as something without it. (The fruit is alike its tree, though unlike to it in its shape and size).