42 THE VAIRAGYA-SATAKAM
70. Being thus agitated, oh mind, you- ( now ) descend into the nether regions, ( now ) soar up beyond the skies, and wander all around the four quarters. Why, even by mistake, do you not once concentrate on that Brahman of the nature of self and bereft of all imperfections, whereby you may attain supreme bliss !
[^rr^^M means "belonging to self/' as the real state of self is Brahman. The other reading ?TF*T5ffct would mean " submerged in self/' being its substance or reality. ]
��71. What are worth the Vedas, the Smritis, the readings from Puranas, the vast Shastras, or the mazes of ceremonials, which give us, as their fruits, a resting-place in heaven, (which is, as it were, ) a village (inter- spersed ) with huts! All else is but the bargaining of traders except that one way which admits one into the state of supreme bliss in one's Self, and which is like the (final) destructive fire to consume the evolving mass of worldly miseries.
[ The Shastras, by which is meant here Logic, Grammer etc. and the six systems of philosophy
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