34. By lopping the members of the mind, you cut it off altogether; and these being egoism and selfishness which compose the essence of the mind. Shun your sense that ‘it is I’ and ‘these are mine.’ 35. Want of these feelings, casts down the mind like a tree felled by the axe; and disperses it like a scattered cloud from the autumnal sky. 36. The mind is blown away by its destitution of egoism (_Ahantá_) and meitatism (mamatá), like a cloud by the winds. (Unconsciousness of one’s egoism and personality, is the tantamount to his utter extinction, and unification with the one universal Soul). 37. It is dangerous to wage a war, against winds and weapons, and fire and water, in order to obtain the objects <of> our worldly desire; but there is no danger whatever in destroying the growing soft and tender desires of the mind. (It is easier to govern one’s self than to suppress his enemies). 38. What is good, and what is not so, is well known for certain even to boys; (_i.e._ the immutability of good and evil is plain to common and simple understandings); therefore employ your mind to what is good, as they train up children in the paths of goodness. (Sow good betimes, to reap its reward in time. If good we plant not, vice will fill the place; and rankest weeds, the richest soils deface). 39. Our minds are as inveterate and indomitable, as ferocious lions of the forest; and they are true victors, who have conquered these, and are thereby entitled to salvation. (Govern your restless mind, and you govern the rest of your kind). 40. Our desires are as fierce lions, with their insatiable thirst after lucre: and they are as delusive as the mirage of the desert, by leading us to dangers. 41. The man that is devoid of desires, cares for nothing, whether the winds may howl with the fury of storms; or the seas break their bounds, or the twelve suns (of the Zodiac) rise at once to burn the universe. 42. The mind is the root, that grows the plants of our good and evil and all our weal and woe. The mind is the tree of the world, and all peoples are as its branches and leaves, (which live by its sap and juice). 43. One prospers every where, who has freed his mind from its desires; and he that lives in the dominion of indifference, rests in his heavenly felicity. 44. The more we curb the desires of our minds, the greater we feel our inward happiness; as the fire being extinguished, we find ourselves cooled from its heat. 45. Should the mind long for millions of worldly mansions in its highest ambition; it is sure to have them spread out to view within the minute particle of its own essence. (The ambitious mind grasps the whole world within its small compass). 46. Opulence in expectancy, is full of anxiety to the mind, and the expected wealth when gained is no less troublesome to it; but the treasure of contentment is fraught with lasting peace of mind, therefore be victorious over your greedy mind by abandonment of all your desires.