15. The mind which is cleared by good judgment, retains the clear impression of everything in it, as a mirror reflects the images of objects on its surface. 16. The wise man whose soul is purified by the association with holymen, and whose mind is cleansed with the lavation of scriptural instruction, is as a sheet of linen cloth flaming with fire. 17. The holy saint shines with the effulgence of his person, as the sun does with his golden beams, diffusing a pure light all around the world. 18. The wise man follows the conduct of holy sages, and the precepts of the sástras in such a manner; as to imitate and practice them himself. 19. Thus the tyro becomes by degrees, as good as the good and great objects of his imitation, and as full of knowledge as the sástras themselves; and having then put down all the enjoyments of life under him, he appears to come out of a prison, by breaking down his chains and fetters. 20. He who is practiced in reducing his appetites and enjoyments day by day, resembles the crescent moon daily increasing in brightness, and enlightening his family, as the moon throws her lustre over the stars about her. 21. The penurious miser (who amass their wealth without enjoying it), is always as sulky as the face of eclipsed moon, and never as smiling as the countenance of the liberal, which is as bright as the face of the moon when freed from eclipse. 22. The liberal man spurns the world as mere straw, and becomes renowned among the great for his munificence; he resembles the kalpa plant of paradise, which yields the desired fruit to every body. 23. Though one may feel some compunction in his mind, at the wilful abdication of his possessions; yet the wise man is glad at his having no property at all. (It is better to have no property, than to regret at its loss or resignation). 24. Any one may laugh at his prior acts, if he will come to know what he was and he is; as a low _chandal_ by being _játismara_, laughs in disgust in making comparison of his past birth with that of the present. 25. Even the siddhas or holy saints, repair with wonder to see the yogi for their esteem of him; and look upon him as the moon risen on earth, with their delighted eyes. 26. The yogi who is ever accustomed to despise all enjoyment, and has attained his right judgement, does not hold in estimation any of the enjoyables in life, though it presents itself to him in the proper manner. 27. The holy man whose soul is raised and enlightened (in time), feels his former enjoyments to become as dull and insipid to him, as a luxuriant tree becomes dry and withered in autumn. 28. He then resorts to the company of holymen, for his greatest and lasting good; and becomes as sane and sound, as the sickman becomes hale by his abstinence and recourse to physicians. 29. Being then exulted in his mind, he dives into the deep sense of the sástras; as a big elephant plunges into a large lake of clear water.