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BOOK I, LECTURE 2, LESSON 6.
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one, so for the full one! But he (to whom the faith is preached) will perhaps disrespectfully beat (the preacher). Yet know, there is no good in this (indiscriminate preaching). (But ascertain before) what sort of man he is, and whom he worships. He is called a hero who liberates the bound, above, below, and in the sideward directions. He always conforms to all knowledge (and renunciation); the hero is not polluted by the sin of killing. He is a wise man who perfectly knows the non-killing?, who searches after the liberation of the bound. The clever one is neither bound nor liberated; he should do or leave undone (what the hero does or does not do); he should not do what (the hero) leaves undone :
Knowing (and renouncing) murder of any kind and worldly ideas in all respects s.
He who sees himself, needs no instruction. But the miserable and afflicted fool who delights in pleasures and whose miseries do not cease, is turned round in the whirl of painst Thus I say. (5)
End of the Second Lecture, called Conquest of the
World.
1 The full and the empty designate those who adopt the true faith, and those who do not.
* Anugghåyana. According to the commentator, the destruction of karman.
* This is again a stray half sloka. The text abounds in minor fragments of verses, trishtubhs, or slokas.
* See the end of the Third Lesson.
