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O5- THE HUNDRED VERSES ON RENUNCIATION

�� ��97. (If) for serpents ( even ) air has been provided by the Creator as food obtainable without killing or toiling; (if) beasts are contented with feeding on grass-sprouts and lying on ground; for men ( also ) with self- devotion strong to lead across the ocean of transmigratory existence some such liveli- ^ hood has beep, created ; and those v\ho seek this have aii their gunas invariably brought to their final dissolution.

[ When the gunas, sattra, rajas and ta-mas, are finally reduced to the inactivity of equipoise, the Yogin reaches beyond Maya. ]

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��98. Will those happy days come tcTnSe 1 when on the bank of the Ganges, sitting in

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