23. Men enjoying the felicity of equanimity, laugh to scorn at the tribulations of the world; and live uninjured under all the varying circumstances of life; they are venerated by the gods also, for the invariable samatá or sameness of their minds, (as those of the gods themselves). 24. If the (unfavorable) course of events, ever happened to ruffle the countenance of the forbearing man; yet the inward equanimity of his mind, serves to shed the ambrosial beams, of a placid moon light within himself. 25. Whatever the even minded man acts or does for himself, and whatsoever he says in opprobrium of the misdeeds of others; are all lauded with applause by the majority of men (who like to see the goodness of others, and to learn of and correct their own faults). 26. Whatever good or evil is known or seen to be done by the impartial observer, at any time whether past or present; are all approved of by the public (under the impression of their being done for common good). 27. The man that sees all things in the same light (of indifference), is never displeased or dejected in his countenance at any calamity or danger, that may betide him at any time. 28. The prince Sibi of old, is recorded in history to have passed pieces of flesh from his own body, and to have fed a hawk therewith, in order to save the life of a captive pigeon from his claws. (This is an instance of samadristi or fellow feeling even towards the brute creation). 29. Again mind the impassible prince, who did not sink into despondence seeing his beloved consort to be maltreated before his sight. (This is an instance of unimpressible fortitude). 30. Mind also how the king of _Trigarta_, offered his only son who was accomplished and successful in all his desires to the horrible _Rákshasa_; upon his being vanquished by the fiend, at a certain wager he had laid with him. 31. Look at the great king Janaka, how he remained undismayed and undejected, at the burning of his well decorated city of Mithila. 32. Look at the quiet and submissive prince of Sályadesa, how he calmly struck off his head from his body, as if it were the plucking off of a lotus leaf or flower from its stem, in order to satisfy the demand of a deity for the same. 33. The Sauvíra sovereign, who had won the big Airávata elephant of the god Indra, in a combat with him; made at last a gift of him to the very god, with as much unconcern, as one offers a heap of white kundu flowers, or huge heaps of rotten straws upon the sacrificial fire. 34. You have heard how the elephant named kundapa, employed his trunk in sympathy to the Bráhman’s kine, in lifting them from being plunged in the mud; and afterwards devoted his body to the service of the Bráhman; wherefore he was taken up to heaven in a celestial car.