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Verse 51
13. It is better to be happy inside and a pauper outside, than
to be a wreck inside and a potentate outside. 14. Wise men clearly apprehend the miseries of worldly
existence and take steps which will provide them succour
in this life, and the next. 15. As we advance in life we must be in a hurry to control and
restrain our activities and passions as these lead to the
bondage of karmas. 16. A large heap of evil karmas is engendered while we
engage ourselves in the money-earning process. 17. The wise man does not abandon himself to sense
gratification. Renunciation rather than acquisition is a
source of inner peace. 18. It makes no sense to abandon our body, home to
numerous diseases and refuse, to sense-indulgence. 19. Our efforts to nourish the body at the expense of the soul
are short-sighted and are bound to result into suffering. 20. Inauspicious meditation leads to the influx of evil karmas
and the auspicious meditation to the destruction of
karmas. 21. The soul is of the nature of perfect knowledge and infinite
bliss, coextensive with the body, and eternal. 22. Meditating on the pure Self through the medium of the
Self is the only certain and unfailing means to achieve the
highest aim of self-realization. 23. The very first requisite for self-exertion that leads to the
removal of the veils of karmic matter from the soul is the acquisition of right faith.
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