In English
Speaking of the , you will notice that there are two little incidents, centred round two minor characters, which sparked off the entire epic: the resentment of and the lust of - and . In the , the life-epic of each of you, beware of these two, (anger) and (desire); a tiny spark of each is enough to destroy peace and joy. Weed them out, before they destroy you. The (extinction of the mind) - with all its likes and dislikes, its flowing out into the objective world in search of joy - can be effected, if the senses are rendered ineffective. Then, like the faggots on which the corpse is cremated, in the process of cremation, the corpse as well as the faggots both become ashes. Sensory activity is the warp as well as the woof of the mind; when that ceases, the mind vanishes. It starves and dies. To get and you must develop a pure unsullied mind, unsullied by egoism and its pro-geny - lust, greed, envy, anger, hatred and the rest. For this, you must seek (good company), perform (good deeds), entertain only (good thoughts) and read (good books). You may see a thousand good things or listen to a thousand good words or read a thousand good books - but, unless you put at least one into practice, the blemishes in the mirror of your heart will not be wiped off. The Lord cannot be reflected therein.