Verse 26

²¹Hearing the king say that, the revered sage Narada was pleased; and speaking to him he told the story, that whole assembly listening. ²²The body is a thing to be reviled or praised, honoured or slighted, king. It is put together out of the ground and the one beyond it, and put together without discernment. ²³Harm is done through taking that body for oneself, as with the rod and with harsh words. This is where the unevenness of beings comes from, lord of the earth: this mine and this I. ²⁴Self-regard is tied to the body, and so the killing of the body is the killing of living things. But he who has no such self-regard, being aloneness itself, the self of all, the highest, the one who lays down restraint: by what can harm be reckoned against him?

²⁵So let a man fasten himself to him by keeping up hatred, or without hatred, or by fear, or by love, or by desire; he for his part never sees anything as apart from himself. ²⁶A mortal comes to be filled with him by keeping up hatred as he does not come by the yoga of devotion. That is my settled mind on it.