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**Meaning:** Even if a sick person takes the best medicine, but continues to consume unhealthy food, the medicine will not be beneficial. Similarly, if a being performs austerities, chanting, etc., but does not renounce worldly desires, they will not benefit from these actions. They cannot be liberated from the cycle of birth and death through such actions. ||6||
**Meaning:** Just as a drop of water cannot stay on a heated iron mass, similarly, detachment cannot stay in the mind of a being attached to worldly desires. ||7||
**Meaning:** If the moon were to rise on the night of the new moon, or if a barren tree were to bear fruit, then detachment could enter the heart of a being attached to worldly desires. Just as these two things are impossible in all three periods of time, similarly, detachment is never possible in a mind attached to worldly desires. ||8||
**Meaning:** Detachment arises without any hindrance from the sight of the virtues of the Self, when there is aversion to the causes of existence and non-involvement in worldly objects. ||9||