Verse 22

¹⁷Fear can come even in the forests to a man who is careless, since the six rivals are living there with him. What blame does the household bring on a wise man who has mastered the senses and takes his pleasure in the self? ¹⁸One who means to conquer the six rivals should first go into the houses and make his effort there. From that stronghold he gets past his enemies while they are still strong; and when they have grown thin, the discerning man may go where he likes. ¹⁹But you have taken the stronghold of the lotus-bud feet of him whose navel is a lotus, and you have conquered the six rivals. Taste here the good things the Person has appointed for you, and, your clinging loosed, follow your own nature.

²⁰Spoken to so, he who was great among the Lord's own bowed his head, from his own smallness, before the command of the revered teacher of the three worlds, said, Very well, and carried it out with great respect. ²¹And the revered one, honoured by Manu as is fitting, while Priyavrata and Narada looked on with even minds, went away, setting going his own standing in himself, that dwelling beyond speech and mind on which no dealing lays hold. ²²Manu too, his wish thus knit together by the highest one, set his son, with the leave of the best of the sages among the gods, over the standing and the guarding of the whole round of the earth, and himself came to rest from the hope that is a pool of the poison of the things of sense, so uneven as they are.