Verse 30

³⁰The mind, dragged off by the senses that their objects pull, carries away the awareness of one who broods on them, as a clump of reeds carries the water out of a pool. ³¹Remembrance falls away from the thinking mind, and when remembrance is spent, knowledge is spent too. The seers call that stoppage a man's denial of his own self. ³²There is no worse going against a man's own good in this world than that something else should grow dearer to him than his own self, at the cost of himself. ³³Brooding on wealth and on what the senses want is a denial of every good a man has; fallen by it from knowledge and from discernment, he enters the state they call the first.

³⁴One who would cross the thick dark should never let attachment form; it is what breaks dharma and wealth and desire and release altogether. ³⁵And of those, release alone is held to be the aim that is final, since the other three are always joined with the fear of the one who ends things.