In English
People have bandaged their eyes with egoism
Do not cry out for help to the rulers or governments if you desire to revive the . No, the Veda belongs to those who crave it, who know its value, who are afficted with an insatiable thirst for it, who desire to practise it, and who are eager to derive the joy and calm that it can impact. No one else has the right to patronise it and talk highly about it; such talk will be insincere and, therefore, valueless and even false. People who do not know how to distinguish between the fleeting and the fixed, the right and the wrong, the true and the false, sit in judgement on the and strut about pompously in their narrow conceited circles; but others keep aloof from such critics. To say, as some of these do, that the are contraptions put together by a few for their aggrandizement is the height of folly; it is the case of the mentally weak judging a thing beyond their ken. A fish, even if it is put into a golden bowl, struggles desperately to return to the sea from which it was pulled up. It is in mortal agony until it reaches its primal home. It wants water all round it to be happy and alive. Mankind also is of the nature of divine bliss (); one cannot survive without bliss. A person is Immortality embodied (), so it is difficult for a person to imagine that their body will fall off and have to die one day. People have bandaged their eyes with egoism, and they say the darkness is very congenial; they take as true the curious shapes of things they sees darkly.