Verse 36

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The load shifted to the shoulder· Verses 31–36

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so the living one, whose lodging is desire, wanders by high roads and low, and goes above or below or in between, to what is appointed, pleasant or unpleasant. Not one of the pains that come from fate, from other beings and from himself is ever cut off for the living one, even if a remedy is found for each of them. As a man carrying a heavy load on his head shifts it to his shoulder, so it is with every remedy. Work by itself is no final cure for works. Both of them, faultless one, come out of not knowing, like a dream inside a dream. Though the thing is not there at all, the round of birth does not stop, as it does not stop for a man moving in a dream by his mind in its subtle form.

Now for the self, which is the one thing worth having, the round of birth is a chain of things not worth having; and it is cut through by the highest devotion to the teacher.