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**The Great Liberation** (The nature of liberation and its cause)
Just as a child, jumping about, speaks both truth and falsehood, so too does the deluded one speak, being bound by illusion. || 22 ||
The Dharma of the liberated one is pure and steadfast. Nirvana is the ultimate goal, attained by the destruction of passions. || 23 ||
(The nature of liberation)
The one who is bound by passions does not attain liberation, just as a ship does not sail without a rudder. The one who is free from all passions attains liberation, just as a ship with a rudder sails. || 24 ||
Even if one has many passions, if one is liberated by the teachings of the Guru, one becomes free from passions and attains the state of liberation. || 25 ||
Even if one has few passions, if one is not liberated by the teachings of the Guru, even if one has attained the highest state of knowledge, one does not become liberated. || 26 ||
The one who is not liberated does not perform good deeds, nor does he avoid evil deeds. He is like a snake, poisonous and angry. || 27 ||
The one who performs actions motivated by passions, without being liberated, in this very life, is destined for endless suffering in the cycle of birth and death. || 28 ||
The Guru, the refuge of the virtuous, liberates one from the root of all evil, from the passions of wrong belief, illusion, and ignorance. || 29 ||
(The fruits of liberation)
The person who is liberated by the teachings of the Guru becomes light and free, like a ship that has been unloaded of its burden. || 30 ||