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_ **Meaning:** Just as heavy food is not beneficial for weak and hungry individuals, similarly, this knowledge of the Self is not beneficial for those with limited intellect. ||193||
**Meaning:** Just as it is harmful for one who recites impure mantras to obtain the gem of the serpent king, similarly, this knowledge is harmful for those who consider themselves great scholars after acquiring a mere fragment of knowledge. ||194||
**Meaning:** One who is not skilled in the conduct of worldly affairs, if he desires to know the knowledge of certainty, is like someone who is unable to cross a small pond but desires to cross the ocean. ||195||
**Meaning:** Therefore, one who takes refuge in the pure path should first determine the conduct of worldly affairs and then, being devoted to the knowledge of the Self, attain the highest equality. ||196||
**278** || Thus ends the chapter on the Determination of the Self. || **Essence of Spirituality**