41. Be freed from your thoughts and desires, and remain fixed in the eternal One without any care for anything; you may be busy or sit easy, like the air when it breathes or is calm and still. 42. Let your manliness be above the feelings of desire and affections, and let your thoughts be directed by rules of the sástras, and your action by the motion of a clock or watch, which act their outward movement. 43. Look on all beings, without the show of fondness or disfavour (or love or hatred) to any one; be you an inconspicuous light of the world, resembling a lighted lamp in a picture (which never burns). (Here the hidden light is opposed to the sacred text. No one lights a lamp to put it under a bushel). 44. The man that has no desire nor any object in view, and has no relish in carnal and sensual enjoyments; can have no other delight except in his inquiries after truth by the light of the sástras. He who has his mind purified by the teachings of the sástras and the precepts of holy men, finds the inscrutable truth shining vividly in his consciousness of it. CHAPTER XXXIX. VASISHTHA’S GÍTÁ OR SERMON ON THE SWEET PEACE OF MIND. Argument:—The inward composure of the enlightened soul and its view of the outer World. Vasishtha continued:—The man whose reliance in this world is really lessened, who is free from desire and unobservant of his religious vows (for the sake of future reward), knowing them to be all in vain (_i.e._ the vanity of human wishes). 2. Our egoism is as the vapour of our breath, falling and sticking on the surface of glass; which when taken under consideration, proves to be a causeless sight, and vanishes to nothing at all in a moment. 3. He who is unloosed from the veil of delusion, who has numbed his rising wishes and efforts; whose soul is filled with heavenly ambrosia (_i.e._ full of holy delight), it is he who is said to be happy in his very nature and essence. (Blest is the enlightened and contented soul). 4. The enlightened mind, that is unshrouded from the mist of doubts or scepticism; bears resemblance with the full-moon, by illuming the sphere of its circle, with the splendour of its intelligence. 5. The intelligent man who is freed from his worldliness and doubts, who has come out of the curtain of ignorance and received the light of truth; is known as the knowing soul, shining in the sphere of the autumnal sky. (So the sruti: the knower of the soul, is as luminous as the very soul). 6. The holy man likens the pure breeze of heaven, that blows freely from the region of Brahma, without any aim and without its support; it is cool in itself and cooling and purifying every thing by its touch.