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**The Path to Liberation: A Guide to the Worldly (Now, the conduct and its fruits of the ignorant beings who are only dependent on conviction are described.)**
Now, those who are only dependent on conviction, while being detached in their intellect from the pomp and show of all rituals, keep their eyes downcast and remain at ease by observing everything with their own intellect (i.e., they remain as they wish by imagining anything according to their own mental constructs), they actually reject the nature of means that are difficult to achieve and do not attain the nature of means that are easily achievable. They remain in the middle (i.e., in the third state of evil, apart from the good and pure), intoxicated with the intoxication of negligence, with a lazy mind, like the intoxicated, like the unconscious, like the sleeping, like those who have attained satisfaction after eating a lot of ghee, sugar, and kheer (i.e., satisfied), with sluggishness (i.e., slowness, inactivity) arising due to a fat body, with terrible intellectual delusion, with stupidity, whose specific consciousness has been extinguished, like a plant, not relying on the karma-consciousness of the Muni-Indra out of fear of the bondage of merit, and not attaining rest in the knowledge-consciousness of ultimate non-action (only) subject to manifest and unmanifest negligence, with the tendency of the consciousness of the light (inferior) karmic fruits obtained, which prevails in them, like a plant, they only bind themselves to sin. It is also said that: "Those who rely on conviction, but do not know conviction (in reality), are lazy in external conduct and destroy the results of conduct."
** (Now, the conduct of the knowledgeable beings who act according to the ground, with the harmony of both conviction and conduct, is described.)**
But those who are great souls, always striving for non-rebirth (liberation), not relying on only one of conviction and conduct (i.e., not being only dependent on conviction or only dependent on conduct), being extremely moderate, facing the creation of rest in the pure consciousness-like self-principle, preventing the rise of negligence, with the greatness of the transformation of the ritualistic conduct that follows the rise of negligence, remaining extremely indifferent, as far as possible, experiencing the self with the self in the self, always remaining appropriate, they (i.e., those great souls) actually renounce karma gradually according to the rest in their own nature, remaining extremely free from negligence, being extremely still, to whom the simile of a plant is given, yet who have completely eradicated (destroyed) the experience of karmic fruits, remaining indifferent to the experience of karma, being completely filled with the essential joy arising from the experience of knowledge, quickly crossing the ocean of the world, become the enjoyers of the eternal fruits (i.e., the bliss of Nirvana) of the word-Brahman. || 172 ||