Verse 35

³⁵Sometimes, dealing with others, he gets some money by cheating over money. ³⁶Sometimes, his money gone, without bed or seat or food or any other comfort, his mind fixed on taking what has not been given, as far as his wanting reaches, he gets from people insults and worse, from this quarter and that. ³⁷So, although the tie of enmity has grown by these entanglements over money, an old habit still makes them marry among one another and then break the ties again. ³⁸On this road of the round of birth, harassed by all kinds of pain and affliction, fallen and undone — wherever one man goes down, another leaves him lying there and takes up whoever is born next, and so they go on grieving, bewildered, afraid, quarrelling, crying out, exulting, singing, bound, and without the good beside them — he does not to this day turn back to that from which this caravan of the world of men set out, which they teach is the far side of the road.

³⁹And this teaching of yoga they do not win: what the sages understand who have laid down the rod, whose temper is quiet and whose selves have come to rest. ⁴⁰Even those royal sages who conquered every quarter with their elephants and offered the sacrifices — what came of it? They lay down in battle on this very earth, over which they had made the tie of enmity, saying, She is mine; and letting her go they were themselves taken away. ⁴¹Holding to the creeper of his works, freed somehow from the hell of that calamity, he moves on this road of the round of birth again and comes back to the caravan of the world of men; and so does the man who has risen above it.