30. They neither grieve at unwished-for occurrences nor pine for their wished-for chances; and knowing well all accidents to be the consequences of their actions, they remain as unconscious as trees (totally insensible of them). 31. These (holy men) appear as common people, and live upon what they get; whether they meet with aught of welcome or unwelcome to them, their minds remain unconquered. 32. They having understood the whole of this Sástra, and having read and considered it well, as well as pondered (on its purport), hold their silence as in the case of a curse or blessing (which is never uttered by saints). 33. This Sástra is easy to be understood, and is ornamented with figures (of speech). It is a poem full of flavours and embellished with beautiful similes. 34. One may be self taught in it who has a slight knowledge of words and their senses; but he who does not understand the purport well, should learn it from a pandit. 35. After hearing, thinking and understanding this work, one has no more need of practising austerities, or of meditation and repeating the _Mantras_ and other rites: and a man requires nothing else in this world for the attainment of his liberation. 36. By deep study of this work and its repeated perusal, a man attains to an uncommon scholarship next to the purification of his soul. 37. The _ego_ and the _non-ego_, that is, the _viewer_ and the _view_, are both but chimeras of the imagination, and it is their annihilation alone, that leads insensibly to the vision of the soul. 38. The error of the reality of _ego_ and the perceptible world, will vanish away as visions in a dream; for who, that knows the falsehood of dreams, will fall into the error (of taking them for truth?) 39. As an imaginary palace gives no joy or grief to any body, so it is in the case of the erroneous conception of the world. 40. As no body is afraid of a serpent that he sees in painting, so the sight of a living serpent neither terrifies nor pleases one who knows it. 41. And as it is our knowledge of the painted serpent that removes our fear of it as a serpent, so our conviction of the unreality of the world, must disperse our mistake of its existence. 42. Even the plucking of a flower or tearing of its (tender) leaflet, is attended with a little exertion (of the nails and fingers), but no (bodily) exertion whatever is required to gain the blessed state (of Yoga meditation). 43. There is an action of the members of body, accompanied with the act of plucking or pulling off a flower; but in the other case (of Yoga), you have only to fix your mind, and make no exertion of your body. 44. It is practicable with ease by any one sitting on his easy seat and fed with his usual food, and not addicted to gross pleasures, nor trespassing the rules of good conduct. 45. You can derive happiness at each place and time, from your own observations, as also from your association with the good wherever it is available. This is an optional rule.