In English
Reduce your desires to escape from miseries
Sacrificing your ego is Sathwik (pure and noble), while sacrificing any animal is Thamasik (impure and ignoble). Today you need to enter into the Sathwik life and sublimate your human nature into divine nature. This, indeed, is the primary goal of your life's journey. Every man undertakes the usual pilgrimages and other routine good activities like charity, etc. But all these will not save him from worries, until and unless he gives up and i.e. "I" and "Mine." A rich man bundled up all the necessary luggage in his bed-holder and started on a pilgrimage. He visited (), , , etc. Although tired with the day-long journey, he could not sleep during the nights. During the day time, he used to have (the holy sight) of beautiful images of Gods and Goddesses and bathe in the sacred waters of holy rivers. He was happy that by these religious activities his sins were being washed away. However, when he investigated into the reason for his not getting sleep during the nights, he found that there were lots of bugs in his bedding. He should get rid of those bugs. Then only he can have sound sleep. In the same manner, in our bedstead called the body there are any number of bugs, namely, endless desires of various types. As long as these desires are there, one cannot escape from miseries wherever one might go. One should, therefore, reduce one's desires.