13. Brahmá said:—“You shall have to wait a hundred thousand years more, for the destruction of Sambara under the arms of Hari in an open engagement.”[4] 14. You have been put to flight to-day by the demoniac Dáma, Vyála and Kata, who have been fighting with their magical art (and deceitful weapons). 15. They are elated with pride at their great skill in warfare, but it will soon vanish like the shadow of a man in a mirror. 16. These demons who are led by their ambition to annoy you, will soon be reduced under your might, like birds caught in a snare. 17. The gods being devoid of ambition, are freed from the vicissitudes of pain and pleasure; and have become invincible by destroying the enemy by their patience. 18. Those that are caught and bound fast in the net of their ambition, and led away by the thread of their expectation, are surely defeated in their aims, and are caught as birds by a string. 19. The learned that are devoid of desire, and are unattached to anything in their minds, are truly great and invincible, as nothing can elate or depress them at any time. 20. A man however great and experienced he may be, is easily overcome by a boy, when he is enticed to pursue after every thing by his avarice. 21. The knowledge that, this is I and these are mine (and apart from all others), is the bane of human life; and one with such knowledge of his self and egoism, becomes the receptacle of evils like the sea of briny waters. 22. He who confines his mind within a narrow limit, for want of his great and extended views, is called dastardly and narrow-minded man notwithstanding with all his learning and wisdom. (Why then do you compress the unlimited soul, within the limited nut-shell of your body?). 23. He that puts a limit to his soul or _átmá_, which is unbounded and infinite, both surely reduce his magnanimity or _garimá_ to the minuteness or anima by his own making. 24. If there be anything in the world beside the oneself, that may be thine or worth thy desiring, thou mayst long to have it; but all things being but parts of the universe, there is nothing particular for any one to have or seek. 25. Reliance on earthly things is the source of unhappiness, while our disinterestedness with all things, is the fountain of everlasting felicity. 26. As long as the Asuras are independent of worldly things, they must remain invincible; but being dependent on them, they will perish as a swarm of gnats in the flame of wild fire. 27. It is the inward desire of man that makes him miserable in himself, and became subdued by others; otherwise the worm-like man is as firm as a rock. (Cringing avarice makes one a slave to others, but its want makes a lion of a weak man).