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**Chapter Twenty-One**
**On the Absence of Hunger and Other Pains**
208. Those who are free from hunger and other pains have no desire for worldly objects. For who, being healthy, would seek out medicines?
209. The happiness that arises from association with external objects is not true happiness. True happiness is eternal, imperishable, and arises from the Self.
210. If health is considered happiness, then that happiness is inherent in the liberated soul. There is no other happiness in the world.
211. The liberated soul is free from all afflictions, free from delusion, and free from disturbance. Being subtle, who can bind them? Their happiness is infinite.
212. The great sages declare that this infinite happiness is the fruit of meditation. It is for this happiness that the monks, clad in the sky, practice austerities.
213. Just as clouds, struck by the wind, quickly dissolve, so too, karmic clouds, struck by the wind of meditation, quickly dissolve.
214. Just as poison, pervading the entire body, is drawn out by the power of a mantra, so too, karmic poison is removed by the power of meditation.
215. The other eleven austerities are considered to be aids to meditation. Therefore, those who desire liberation should constantly practice meditation.
216. Hearing this description of the practice of meditation, the king of Magadha, Shrenik, was greatly pleased. At that time, his mind, like a lotus, blossomed, as the darkness of ignorance was dispelled.
**Notes:**
1. **Viṣayaṣitā:** Desire for worldly objects.
2. **Sukham:** Happiness.
3. **Svasvarūpāvasthāyitvam:** Being established in one's true nature.
4. **Munvataḥ:** Of the monks.
5. **Digambarāḥ:** Sky-clad, naked monks.
6. **Nirasyate:** Is destroyed.
7. **Vikasitam:** Blossomed.
8. **Ajñāna:** Ignorance.